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Issue: Vol. 1388 No. 1: 8 Jan. 2007
Type: Articles
Published: 2007-01-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1388.1.3
Page range: 45–50
Abstract views: 55
PDF downloaded: 3

Sphedanolestes albipilosus (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae), a new harpactorine species from the Ryukyus and Taiwan

Laboratory of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan.
Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.
Department of Zoology, National Science Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
Reduviidae Harpactorinae Sphedanolestes new species Ryukyu Islands Taiwan

Abstract

A new harpactorine assassin bug, Sphedanolestes albipilosus, is described on the basis of fresh specimens collected from Ishigaki-jima and Iriomote-jima Islands of the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, and from the Island of Taiwan. This species differs from its closest relative, S. subtilis (Jakovlev, 1893) known from mainland China, in having a smaller body, the fourth antennal segment distinctly longer than the third, and a dark longitudinal stripe on each side of the abdomen. Habitat and adult season of this species are notably limited in the Ryukyu Islands.

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