The assassin bug genus Haematoloecha in Taiwan, with notes on species occurring in the neighbouring areas (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Ectrichodiinae)
Author
Rédei, Dávid
Author
Tsai, Jing-Fu
text
Zootaxa
2012
3332
1
26
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.281266
c16be6cd-04e1-408f-bf20-8f325d611989
1175-5326
281266
Genus
Haematoloecha
Stål, 1874
Haematoloecha
Stål, 1874
: 48
, 54.
Type
species by monotypy:
Scadra nigrorufa
Stål, 1866
.
References.
Lethierry & Severin 1896
: 133 (catalogue);
Oshanin 1908
: 540 (catalogue, Palaearctic);
Fukui 1927
: 10 (fauna of
Japan
);
Esaki 1927
: 179, 180 (diagnostic characters, in key);
Wu 1935
: 464 (catalogue,
China
);
China
1940
: 223 (in key);
Stichel 1960a
: 373 (catalogue, Palaearctic);
Stichel 1960b
: 112 (catalogue, distribution);
Hsiao 1973
: 58 (in key); 60 (key to Chinese species);
Cook 1977
: 66 (in key); 74 (catalogue);
Hsiao & Ren 1981
: 419 (in key); 432 (fauna of
China
and
Taiwan
);
Maldonado Capriles 1990
: 48 (catalogue);
Putshkov & Putshkov 1996
: 151 (catalogue, Palaearctic);
Kwon
et al.
2001
: 209 (catalogue,
Korea
).
Revised diagnosis.
Macropterous or micropterous; integument virtually glabrous, smooth; head elongate, antenniferous tubercle not surrounded by lamelliform process laterally; antennal segment III subdivided into two, segment IV into four secondary segments, therefore antenna 8-segmented; first visible labial segment at most two times as long as second visible segment; in macropterous morphs, anterior lobe of pronotum distinctly shorter but more than half as long as posterior lobe, in micropterous forms, anterior lobe longer than posterior lobe; scutellum strongly narrowed posteriad, with 1+1 closely situated lateral prongs apically.
Diversity and distribution.
The genus currently contains 18 species, occurring in East and Southeast Asia. Two new species are described, another one is transferred to this genus, and three species are sunk into synonymy in the present paper, therefore the number of species within
Haematoloecha
will remain 18. Five species occur in
Taiwan
.
Note.
Since only macropterous species were known so far, a revised diagnosis is provided above which allows recognition of macro- and micropterous morphs as well.