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Issue: Vol. 2762 No. 1: 10 Feb. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-02-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2762.1.6
Page range: 61–62
Abstract views: 57
PDF downloaded: 1

Description of the unknown male of the Afrotropical Heissocteus ernsti J. A. Lis (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cydnidae: Cephalocteinae)

Department of Biosystematics, Opole University, Oleska 22, 45-052 Opole, Poland
Hemiptera Heteroptera Cydnidae Cephalocteinae

Abstract

Heissocteus ernsti was described from Zambia (Lis 2006) as a genus and species new to science. Despite the fact that its description was based on a single female, the morphological characters could place the new taxon close to Cephalocteus Dufour, the only genus of the tribe Cephalocteini (Cydnidae: Cephalocteinae) known at then (Lis 1999).

References

  1. Lis, J.A. (1999) Taxonomy and phylogeny of Cephalocteinae with a reference to their historical biogeography (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cydnidae). Polish Journal of Entomology, 68, 111–131.

    Lis, J.A. (2006) Heissocteus ernsti nov. gen. et nov. sp. (Heteroptera, Cydnidae) from Zambia. In: Rabitsch, W. (Ed.), Hug the bug – For love of true bugs. Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag von Ernst Heiss, Denisia, 19 (Neue Serie 5), 505–507.

    Lis, J.A. & Hohol-Kilinkiewicz, A. (2002) Abdominal trichobothrial pattern and its taxonomic and phylogenetic significance in Cydnidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). IV. Cydninae. Polish Journal of Entomology, 71, 133–143.