An overview of the big-eyed bug fauna of French Polynesia (Heteroptera Lygaeoidea: Geocoridae) Author Kóbor, Péter text Zootaxa 2020 2020-02-26 4743 3 359 370 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4743.3.3 f90d8a3f-2c97-416f-a478-df637f9f9b99 1175-5326 3688271 9C451DB1-794E-4D22-A425-C9BD9697CB56 Germalus costalis Van Duzee, 1932 (Figures 2C) LSID: http://lsid.speciesfile.org/urn:lsid:Lygaeoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:488792 Material studied . Holotype : “Kopaafaa/ VIII-2-1929 // Hiva Oa / 2770ft // Marquesas / Islands // Mumford &/ Adamson // Pacific Entomo-/ logical Survey // TYPE / costalis [hw.]// Holotype No. 597/ Germalus / costalis / Van Duzee” ( ♂ , BPBM ); paratype : “Kopaafaa/ VIII-2-1929 // Hiva Oa/ 2770ft // Marquesas / Islands// Mumford &/ Adamson// Pacific Entomo-/ logical Survey// ALLOTYPE / costalis [hw.]// Allotype No. 597a/ Germalus / costalis / Van Duzee” ( ♀ , BPBM ). Diagnosis . Pale ochraceous species with brownish punctation and faded, irregular spots at humeral angles. Among the Germalus species distributed in the region G. costalis is the only one which has no remarkable band-like decoration laterally. Eyes moderately erect in lateral view. Pronotum with elongate impunctate spots near humeral angles. Corial margin of clavus completely punctate, punctation at basal half regular, dense, becoming sparser and irregular in apical half. MTSEA with ostiole of irregular shape, elongated; vestibular scar well-defined, reaching nearly metathoracic dorsum; peritremal surface oblong, curved, reaching approximately 2/3 of metapleurite. Distribution . Known as endemic to Marquesas Islands .