Heteroptera (Hemiptera) of the Socotra Archipelago I: Introduction, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha and Leptopodomorpha
Author
Kment, Petr
0000-0002-7026-5691
Department of Entomology, National Museum, Cirkusová 1740, CZ- 193 00 Praha 9 – Horní Počernice, Czech Republic
sigara@post.cz
Author
Carapezza, Attilio
University of Palermo; corresponding address: Via Sandro Botticelli, 15, I- 90144 Palermo, Italy
attilio.carapezza@unipa.it
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Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
2022
Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae
2022-12-31
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2
475
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http://dx.doi.org/10.37520/aemnp.2022.026
journal article
10.37520/aemnp.2022.026
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Hebrus
(
Hebrus
)
sp.
(
Figs 16
,
25
)
Material examined.
SOCOTRA
:
Dixam plateau, Tudhen (
12°32′42ʺN
53°59′54ʺE
), helocrene with
Juncus
, suction sampler,
1135 m
a.s.l.,
2♀♀
(ma) 1 L, Socotra expedition 2012: J. Bezděk, J. Hájek,V.Hula, P.Kment, I. Malenovský, J. Niedobová & L. Purchart lgt. (
NMPC
).
Measurements.
Females
(n = 2). Body length: 1.85 / 2.05; pronotum: anterior width (across anterolateral angles) 0.41 / 0.43, humeral width (across humeral angles) 0.82 / 0.90; length of antennal segments: I – 0.21 / 0.23, II – 0.16 / 0.18), III – 0.19 / –, IVa – 0.14 / –, IVb – 0.19 / –.
Habitat.
It was collected by suction sampler in a helocrene overgrown with grasses and
Juncus socotranus
at Tudhen (
1135 m
a.s.l.) in the montane zone.
Note.
The examined specimens differ in their blackish colouration with only base of clavus whitish (
Fig. 16
) and metanotal elevation posteriorly with wide and shallow incision (
Fig. 25
) from
H
.
(
H
.)
kanyukovae
sp. nov.
and certainly represent a different species. In sharing the above mentioned characters the
two females
resemble several species of
Hebrus
s. str.
known from
Ethiopia
as illustrated by
COBBEN (1982a)
:
H.
(
H.
)
bimaculatus
Cobben, 1982
,
H
. (
H
.)
katompei
Poisson, 1950,
H.
(
H.
)
pseudopusillus
Cobben, 1982
or
H.
(
H.
)
spinitibialis
Cobben, 1982
. However, in absence of male specimens the precise identification of the species is impossible.