Alloiothucha artocarpi (Horváth) (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae) found on jackfruit, Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam. (Moraceae): first representative of the genus from Laos, and the synonymy of Cetiothucha Drake & Ruhoff
Author
Souma, Jun
0000-0002-2238-5015
Entomological Laboratory, Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. kodokusignal @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2238 - 5015 & Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC 1), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan
kodokusignal@gmail.com
Author
Cho, Geonho
Department of Forest Resources, Sunchon National University, Suncheon 57922, Republic of Korea
Author
Lee, Seunghwan
Insect Biosystematics Laboratory, Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Science, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University, 08826, Republic of Korea
text
Zootaxa
2022
2022-02-14
5099
3
369
381
journal article
20658
10.11646/zootaxa.5099.3.5
c9124841-494e-4656-b9a2-337cef4c414f
1175-5326
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Key to the species of
Alloiothucha
The key presented below is based on comparisons of the materials examined in the present study with the descriptions, illustrations, and photographs of the six species of
Alloiothucha
and
Cetiothucha
(
Horváth 1926
;
Drake 1927
,
1966
;
Drake & Ruhoff 1965a
; Guilbert
et al
. 2018;
United States
National Museum of Natural History 2022
), and the key of
Cetiothucha
(Guilbert
et al
. 2018)
.
1 Hood more or less constricted in middle part................................................................ 2
- Hood not constricted in middle part....................................................................... 3
2 Hood gourd-shaped, more constricted in middle part, with dorsal margin sinuate in lateral view; anterior margin of hemelytron strongly curved in basal part..............................................
Alloiothucha artocarpi
(
Horváth, 1926
)
- Hood nearly semi-ellipsoid, less constricted in middle part, with dorsal margin arched in lateral view; anterior margin of hemelytron weakly curved in basal part..........................................
Alloiothucha necopinata
Drake, 1927
3 Costal area of hemelytron with four rows of areolae at widest part.....................
Alloiothucha chaera
Drake, 1966
- Costal area of hemelytron with three rows of areolae at widest part.............................................. 4
4 Paranotum partially with two rows of areolae and a single row of areolae.............................................................................................
Alloiothucha physalia
(Drake & Ruhoff, 1965)
,
comb. nov.
- Paranotum with two rows of areolae throughout its length..................................................... 5
5 Discoidal area of hemelytron with four rows of areolae at widest part............
Alloiothucha philippinensis
Drake, 1927
- Discoidal area of hemelytron with five rows of areolae at widest part..................................................................................
Alloiothucha constanti
(
Guilbert, Pham & Soulier-Perkins, 2018
)
,
comb. nov.