New taxa of the Largidae and Pyrrhocoridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from the Oriental Region
Author
Stehlík, Jaroslav L.
Department of Entomology, Moravian Museum, Hviezdoslavova 29 a, CZ- 627 00 Brno - Slatina, Czech Republic
Author
Jindra, Zdeněk
Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Agriculture, CZ- 165 21 Praha 6 - Suchdol, Czech Republic; e-mail: palomena @ seznam. cz
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Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
2008
2008-12-08
48
2
611
648
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5341841
0374-1036
5341841
Dindymus
(
Pseudodindymus
)
albicornis siberutensis
subsp. nov.
Type material.
HOLOTYPE
: J,
INDONESIA
: MENTAWAI ISLANDS: SIBERUT:
Boiacan
env.,
ix.2004
,
S. Jakl
lgt. (
PPUA
)
.
PARATYPES
: the same locality, 9 JJ
4 ♀♀
(
ZJPC
)
;
SIBERUT:
Salappa env.,
50-100 m
a.s.l.
,
iv.-v.2005
, 3 JJ
5 ♀♀
,
S. Jakl
lgt. (
ZJPC
).
NIAS:
no further data,
30.iv.1910
,
1 ♀
, no collector (
MMBC
)
.
Description.
Posterior pronotal margin with yellow stripe, not reaching posterior pronotal angles.
Differential diagnosis.
The nominotypical subspecies,
D
. (
P
.)
a.
albicornis
(Fabricius, 1805)
, differs from
D
. (
P
.)
a.
siberutensis
subsp. nov.
only in the presence of two large median yellow spots on the posterior pronotal margin. Only two additional species of
Dindymus
,
D. daiacus
Breddin, 1901
(
Philippines
:
Palawan
) and
D. sandakan
Stehlík
, in press (
Malaysia
:
Sabah
), have the posterior pronotal margin yellow. However,
D. daiacus
does not have the posterior part of corium red but pale yellow, and has black bases of femora and epicoxal lobes I and II. In
D. sandakan
the yellow stripe on the posterior pronotal margin is disproportionally smaller and the pronotum narrower at base (STEHLÍK, in press).
Etymology.
Patronymic, named after the Siberut Island.
Distribution.
Indonesia
, Mentawai Islands, Siberut. The nominotypical subspecies
D
. (
P
.)
a.
albicornis
occurs in
Myanmar
, southern
Thailand
,
Malaysia
(
Melaka
,
Pahang
,
Sabah
,
Sarawak
,
Selangor
),
Indonesia
(
Sumatra
,
Java
,
Bali
,
Sulawesi
, Timor) (
STEHLÍK & JINDRA 2003
; STEHLÍK, in press).