New Afrotropical species of the genus Coridiellus J. A. Lis, 1990 with a key to its species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Dinidoridae)
Author
Kocorek, Anna
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-04-23
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4767.1.9
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Genus
Coridiellus
J.A.
Lis, 1990
Diagnostic characters.
Body elongated ovoid, black, brown or reddish brown, sometimes with darker or pale band in anterior margin of pronotum, along costal border and sometimes along lateral margin of abdomen, sometimes legs and 5
th
antennal segment pale, parameres with characteristic thumb-like processus.
Key to the species of the genus
Coridiellus
1. body dark brown, brownish black or black..................................................................... 2
- body light brown or reddish brown........................................................................... 4
2. scutellum with yellow apex (
Fig. 13
), paramere as in Fig. 14.....................................
C. patruelis
(Stål, 1853)
- scutellum uniformly colored................................................................................. 3
3. fifth antennal segment yellow (
Fig. 1
), paramere as in Fig. 2................................
C. pseudocyclopeltus
sp. nov.
- fifth antennal segment the same color as the rest of antennal segments (Fig. 3), paramere as in Fig. 4.................................................................
C. cyclopeltus
(Distant, 1890)
4. pronotum uniformly colored................................................................................ 5
- anterior border of pronotum lighter than rest part of pronotum (Fig. 11), paramere as in Fig. 12..........................................................
C. mayumbensis
(Schouteden, 1910)
5. Connexivum yellow (
Fig. 9
), paramere as in Fig. 10.......................................
C. lenoiri
(Schouteden, 1909)
- conexivum red........................................................................................... 6
6. head black, legs brown (
Fig. 5
), paramere as in Fig. 6........................................
C. bechynei
(Villiers, 1956)
- head as the rest of body (Fig. 7), paramere as in Fig. 8.......................................
C. figlinus
(Distant, 1900)