Review of the genus Pseudovelia HOBERLANDT 1950 (Heteroptera: Veliidae) on the Malay Peninsula
Author
Hecher, Ch.
Author
Zettel, H.
text
Linzer biologische Beiträge
2006
2006-07-21
38
1
701
710
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5433949
0253-116X
5433949
Pseudovelia sexualis
(
PAIVA
1917)
Microvelia
(
Kirkaldya
)
sexualis
PAIVA 1917: 77-79
.
Microvelia sexualis
:
LUNDBLAD 1933: 308
.
Microvelia crassipes
LUNDBLAD 1933: 331-333
(syn.
ANDERSEN 1983
).
Pseudovelia
(s.str.)
sexualis
:
ANDERSEN 1983: 256-259
.
Pseudovelia sexualis
:
ANDERSEN et al. 2002: 232
, 247, 248.
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d:
Indonesia
:
Holotype
(apt.) of
M. crassipes
,
Sumatra
,
Lake Toba
,
Balige
,
2 Apr. 1929
(
NRMS
).
D i a g n o s i s: Body length 2.0-
2.2 mm
(apt.),
2.5 mm
(macr.),
2.5-2.8 mm
(apt.),
3.2 mm
(macr.); pronotum length to pronotum width as 0.6-0.7: 1 (apt.,
); length of antenna to body length as 0.5-0.6: 1, relation of antennal segments 1-4 as 1.6: 1: 1.0: 1.6; length of metatarsus to metatibia as 0.5-0.6: 1 (,), length of first metatarsal segment to second as 0.9: 1 (), 0.7: 1 (); length of grasping comb on male protibia to length of protibia as 0.6: 1; vertex without patch of silvery hairs; eye densely pilose; ventral lobe of head not produced caudad; structure of male and female genital segments as figured by
ANDERSEN (1983
: figs. 13-17).
G e n e r a l d i s t r i b u t i o n:
Pakistan
,
India
,
Bangladesh
, northern and southern
Thailand
, Sumatra (
ANDERSEN 1983
,
HECHER 2005
).