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 79627295-45ca-4a60-8976-2bc265bfb851 1175-5326 264698 9CEFDA69-45D0-48E8-86B1-8C86E5A4F70C 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).