Notes on fine structures of Chauliops with descriptions of two new species from China (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Malcidae)
Author
Gao, Cuiqing
Author
Bu, Wenjun
text
Zootaxa
2009
2295
1
14
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.191558
a792634d-8c4e-44c8-a90b-70a8fc6c0266
1175-5326
191558
Key to the known species of
Chauliops
Scott
from
China
1 Antennal segment I longer than III ............................................................................................................................... 5
- Antennal segment I shorter than III .............................................................................................................................. 2
2 Body small, body length less than 2.0 mm; all femora mutic; general coloration pale, obscure yellowish, with most punctures concolorous (
Fig. 8
e)
......................................................................................................
C. bisontula
Banks
- Body large, body length over
2.2 mm
; hind femur usually armed with a spine, general coloration dark, obscure yellowish brown to blackish brown; with most punctures darker than body surface ........................................................ 3
3 Mesofemur mutic below; antennal segment II longer than IV; pronotum not conspicuously declivent anteriorly; eye inconspicuously produced anterior-laterally (
Fig. 8
f)
.................................................................
C. horizontalis
Zheng
- Mesofemur armed below with a spine; antennal segments II and IV equal or nearly equal; pronotum declivent anteriorly; eye conspicuously produced anterior-laterally ................................................................................................. 4
4 Distal 2/3 of all femora and proximal 1/2 of all tibiae dark brown; body length over
2.50 mm
; general coloration dark brown to blackish brown; spermatheca with the uncoiled spermathecal duct (
Fig.
8
g)
........
C. zhengi
Xue
et
Bu
- Distal 1/3 of all femora and proximal 1/3 of all tibiae with dark brown narrow rings; body length less than
2.40 mm
; general coloration yellowish brown; spermatheca with the coiled spermathecal duct (
Fig. 8
c)
.....
C. quaternaria
sp. nov.
5 Basal 1/3 of tibiae darker; spermatheca with a tightly coiled spermathecal duct; lateral lobe of pygophore subquadrate (
Fig. 8
d)............................................................................................................................................ C.
fallax
Scott
- Basal and apical 1/3 of tibiae each with a dark brown ring, or basal 1/3 of tibiae dark brown and distal 1/3 of tibiae with a dark brown ring; spermatheca with a nearly uncoiled spermathecal duct; lateral lobe of pygophore triangular (
Fig. 8
a, b)
..........................................................................................................................................
C. conica
sp. nov.