One new species and two new records of Pyrrhocoridae (Hemiptera, Heteroptera) from China
Author
Zhao, Ping
0000-0001-9315-2756
Key Laboratory of Environment Change and Resources Use in Beibu Gulf of Ministry of Education, Nanning Normal University, Nanning 530001, China
Author
Ou, Minmin
https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2623-293X
Key Laboratory of Environment Change and Resources Use in Beibu Gulf of Ministry of Education, Nanning Normal University, Nanning 530001, China
Author
Cao, Liangming
0000-0002-6581-6719
Key Laboratory of Forest Protection of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Ecology and Nature Conservation Institute, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China
Author
Liu, Huaiyu
Department of Entomology and MOA Key Lab of Pest Monitoring and Green Management, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Author
Wang, Jianyun
0000-0002-8466-3252
Environment and Plant Protection Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou 571101, China
text
ZooKeys
2024
2024-08-27
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journal article
301754
10.3897/zookeys.1210.125457
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Genus
Euscopus
Stål, 1870
Euscopus
Stål, 1870: 102
:
Distant 1903: 105
;
Liu 1981 a
: 231
. Type species by monotypy:
Euscopus rufipes
Stål, 1870
.
Generic character.
Body oblique and covered with dense, short setae. Head length approximately equal to width, its apical part downward declining, slightly bulging at top, head width approximately equal to width of anterior pronotal lobe; labium extending to or over coxae of the middle leg, first segment not longer than head; antennae slightly thicker and shorter, first segment longest, second to fourth segments approximately equal in length; pronotum wider than long, lateral margin slightly upward upturned, transversal constriction obviously continuous. Costal margin of corium of the fore wing nearly straight; fore femora slightly thickened, subapical part of the ventral surface with two or three small spines; intersegmental sulcus of the fourth and fifth segments of abdominal sterna obviously bent forward, not straight to its lateral margin.
Remark.
A total of 16 species are currently recognized worldwide (
Zhao et al. 2022
), with four species reported in
China
. A new record species is reported from
China
in this paper.
Distribution.
Oriental region.