Jewel Bugs of Australia (Insecta, Heteroptera, Scutelleridae)
Author
Gerry Cassis
Author
Loren Vanags
text
Denisia
2006
19
275
398
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.12996779
12996779
Subfamily
Pachycorinae
Remarks: It is beyond the scope of this work to review the
Pachycorinae
, which are not native to Australia; we only reviewed the introduced species,
Agonosoma trilineatum
in any detail. This subfamily is largely found in the Western Hemisphere, with only
Deroplax
MAYR
and
Hotea
occurring in the Old World (
KIRKALDY
1909
;
SCHUH
&
SLATER
1995
).
KUMAR
(1964)
placed the Australian species,
Tectocoris diophthalmus
, in the
Pachycorinae
, on the basis of the ejaculatory apparatus; an action not followed by subsequent authors. Pachycorines are primarily diagnosed by the presence of stridulatory vittae and tibial plectra; characters that are thought to be exclusive to the
Pachycorinae
(e.g.,
SCHUH
&
SLATER
1995
).