A revision of the Australian genus Trachylestes with the description of two new species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae)
Author
Malipatil, M. B.
Author
Kwak, M. L.
Author
Gunawardene, N.
text
Zootaxa
2016
4105
1
88
100
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4105.1.4
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1175-5326
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Trachylestes aspericollis
(
Stål, 1859
)
(
Figs. 1–2
)
Reduvius aspericollis
Stål, 1859
: 363
.
Penthikocleptes australicus
Miller, 1958
: 77
. Synonymised by
Malipatil (1991: 938)
.
Trachylestes aspericollis
:
Malipatil, 1991
: 938
.
Description.
The species has been adequately described and illustrated (as
Penthikocleptes australicus
) by
Miller (1958)
, the followings are additions:
Measurements
(of
holotype
male of the junior synonym
P. australicus
first, followed by of a non-type female): Body length 8.9, 8.2; maximum width 2.52, 2.17. Length of head 1.88, 1.74, width across eyes 1.04, 1.08, interocular space 0.56, 0.52, interocellar space 0.40, 0.35, eye-ocellar space 0.12, 0.11, eye length 0.48, 0.46, eye width 0.26, 0.28. Lengths of antennal segments: [all segments missing in
holotype
], I, 2.19, II, 1.23, III, 0.87, IV, 1.76. Pronotum median length 1.60, 1.63, width posterior margin 2.00, 1.96. Scutellum length 0.72, 0.83, width 0.96, 1.00. Length hemelytra 5.40, 4.99; length corium 3.42, 3.53; width membrane 1.80, 1.67.
FIGURES 1–2
,
Trachylestes aspericollis
: 1, dorsal view; 2, lateral view.
Distribution.
Northern Territory, Queensland, New South
Wales
.
Type
material examined.
Reduvius aspericollis
:
Syntype
♀, “
Typus
”, “Nov. Holl.?Cumming”, “2633”, “
aspericollis
Stål
”, “Zool. Mus. Berlin”. Left mid and hind legs, antenna except left basal segment missing;
NHMB
.
Penthikocleptes australicus
:
Holotype
♂, Cent. Queensland, Carnarvon,
Australia
,
29.v.1954
, T.E. Woodward;
NHML
.
Additional specimens examined.
“Austral. Coll. Signoret”, “
aspericollis
det Stål”, “
Gminatus
”, “Coll. Nat.Mus.Wien”; antennae except basal segment of right antenna, right fore leg and all tarsi missing; (1 ♀,
NHMV
).
Queensland:
Tibrogargan Ck.,
4.xii.1964
, B. Cantrell (
1 ♂
, QM); Woolooga,
6.xii.1961
, J.W. Turner (1 ♀, QM).
New South
Wales
:
Woodenbong,
9.xi.1958
, I. Yeo (
1 ♂
1 ♀, QM).