The thread-legged bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae) of Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands
Author
Tatarnic, Nikolai J.
Author
Cassis, Gerasimos
text
Zootaxa
2011
2967
21
43
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.207009
59bd5b61-1e06-4ec7-9458-40dba5139042
1175-5326
207009
Leaylia
Wygodzinsky 1956
Leaylia
Wygodzinsky 1966
: 515
(new genus,
type
species:
Bargylia norfolkiana
Wygodzinsky 1956
, by original designation);
Maldonado, 1990
: 134
(catalogue);
Cassis & Gross, 1995
: 297
(catalogue).
Diagnosis.
Recognised by the following combination of characters: apterous; medium-sized (~
12–13 mm
); body surface covered with minute tubercles; eyes small; anteocular region of head swollen; clypeus lacking spine; labium straight; two rows of setigerous spines on ventral surface of forefemur of varying lengths, with basal-most spine of ventrolateral series the largest. Similar to
Bargylia
, but differing in the straight labium, shorter metanotum, and the aedeagus lacking “elongate struts” (see
Wygodzinsky 1966
: Figs. 159L–M).