A key to species of genus Malcus Stål, with descriptions of four new species from China (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Malcidae)
Author
Wang, Shujing
Author
Bu, Wenjun
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-04-01
4759
1
31
48
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4759.1.2
9b5efe0b-1ca6-4468-b462-227be30ffd37
1175-5326
3735937
1C32D464-B30D-4F6E-9D1D-46C84C8316B6
Genus
Malcus
Stål, 1859
Malcus
Stål, 1859: 219–298
;
Slater, 1964: 429–431
;
Štys, 1967: 351–517
;
Zheng, Zou & Hsiao, 1979: 273–280
;
Zheng, 1998: 167–178
;
Zheng, 1999: 267–278
;
Kondorosy, 2000: 231–138
.
Type
species.
Malcus flavidipes
Stål, 1859
Redescription.
Body elongate. General ground color light yellowish brown to dark brown. Proximal part of head horizontal, anterior vertical. Eyes mostly sessile, situated antero-laterally. Ocelli situated on a common tubercle submedially. Antenniferous tubercle change into antennal sclerite and pre-antennal plate. Antennae long, the 1
st
segment subcylindric, the 2
nd
and 3
rd
segments conspicuously thin, the 4
th
segment fusiform. Corium narrow, lateral margin concave in the middle, apical corial angle with a conspicuous tubercle. Metathoracic wing without hamus. Peritreme of metapleural gland protruding. The abdominal laterotergites V–VII outward horizontally, lateral margin with some teeth.