A review of the Macropes Motschulsky (Hemiptera: Lygaeoidea: Blissidae) from China, with descriptions of three new species
Author
Gao, Cuiqing
Author
Bu, Wenjun
text
Zootaxa
2010
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55
68
journal article
37552
10.5281/zenodo.275779
638b860d-cd4c-4e89-a361-466899a75c5e
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275779
Macropes dentipes
Motschulsky, 1859
(
Figs. 1
H; 3A, F)
Macropes dentipes
Motschulsky, 1859
,
Etud. Ent
. 8, 108.
Macropes privus
Distant, 1909
,
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist
. (8) 3, 325; Zheng & Zou, 1981a, 73; Hua, 2000, 190.
This species was originally recorded as
M. privus
Distant
in
China
(Zheng & Zou 1981a; Hua 2000); Kerzhner and Jansson (1985) synonymized
M. privus
with
M. dentipes
. It has been recorded only from
Taiwan
of
China
. We found more specimens from
Hainan
and
Yunnan
provinces of
China
in recent years.
There is a difference between the specimens we examined from
Hainan
and
Yunnan
of
China
and those described by Slater and Wilcox (1973) from
India
and
Taiwan
of
China
: the labium of specimens from
Hainan
and
Yunnan
attains the posterior margin of prosternum or anterior margin of mesosternum (labium attains posterior margin of mesosternum in Slater & Wilcox [1973]). Additionally, we provide figures of pygophore opening and paramere (
Fig. 3A
, F).
Material examined.
China
:
2 males
, Yulingu, Tianchi, Jianfengling National Nature Reserve,
Hainan
,
1. IV. 2008
, 700–
800 m
, Bo Cai, Gengping Zhu;
1 female
, Liyue, Jingdong,
Yunnan
,
6. XI. 2001
,
1700 m
, Weibing Zhu.
Distribution.
China
:
Hainan
,
Taiwan
and
Yunnan
;
Sri Lanka
and
India
.