Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 2121 No. 1: 29 May. 2009
Type: Article
Published: 2009-05-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2121.1.7
Page range: 64–68
Abstract views: 88
PDF downloaded: 3

Arcuatitibia kerzhneri, a new genus and species of Reduviinae (Hemiptera: Reduviinae) from China

Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Yuanmingyuan West Road, Beijing 100193, China
Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, China
Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Yuanmingyuan West Road, Beijing 100193, China
Hemiptera Reduviidae Reduviinae taxonomy China Xinjiang new genus new species

Abstract

A new genus, Arcuatitibia Luo, Lu & Cai, and one new species, A. kerzhneri Luo, Lu & Cai, are described in the subfamily Reduviinae, based on the materials from Xinjiang, China. The dorsal habitus, male genitalia, and other diagnostic morphological features are illustrated.

References

  1. Cai, W. & Shen, X. (1997) A key to Chinese species of Reduvius with descriptions of five new species (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Reduviinae). Entomotaxonomia, 19, 253–267.

    Cai, W., Sun, L. & Tomokuni, M. (2001) A review of the species of the reduviid genus Tiarodes Burmeister (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Reduviinae) from China. European Journal of Entomology, 98, 533–542.

    Cai, W. & Yang, S. 2002. Reduviidae. In: Li, Z. & Jin, D. (Eds.). Insects of Maolan Landscape. Guizhou Sci-Tec Press, Guiyang, pp. 208–230. (In Chinese with English summary).

    China, W.E. (1925) The Hemiptera collected by Prof. J. W. Gregory’s expedition to Yunnan, with synonymic notes on allied species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London., 16, 449–485.

    China, W.E. (1940) Key to the subfamilies and genera of Chinese Reduviidae with description of new genera. Lingnan Science Journal, 19, 205–255.

    Hoffmann, W.E. (1944) Catalogue of Reduviidae of China. Lingnan University Science Bulletin, 10, 80 pp.

    Hsiao, T.-Y. (1976) A summarized report on Reduviinae from China (Hemiptera: Reduviidae). Acta Entomologica Sinica, 19, 77–93 (in Chinese with English summary).

    Hsiao, T.-Y. & Ren, S. (1981) Reduviidae. In: Hsiao, T.Y., Ren, S.Z., Zheng, L.Y., Jing, X.L., Zou, H.G. & Liu, S.L. (Eds.), A handbook for the determination of the Chinese Hemiptera-Heteroptera (II). Science Press, Beijing, pp. 390–538. (In Chinese with English summary).

    Hua, L. (2000) List of Chinese insects, Vol. I. Zhongshan University Press, Guangzhou, Pp. 206–221.

    Lu, J. & Cai, W. (1994) An annotated check list of assassin bugs (Heteroptera: Reduviidae) from Henan, with description of a new subspecies. The fauna and taxonomy of insects in Henan, 1, 17–27. (In English with Chinese summary).

    Maldonado-Capriles, J. (1990) Systematic catalogue of the Reduviidae of the world (Insecta: Heteroptera). Caribbean Journal of Science, Special Edition, x+ 694 pp.

    Putshkov, V.G. & Putshkov, P.V. (1985) A catalogue of assassin-bugs genera of the world (Heteroptera, Reduviidae). VINITI, Moskva, 138 pp.

    Putshkov, V.G. & Putshkov, P.V. (1996) Family Reduviidae Latreille, 1807, assassin-bugs. In: Aukema, B. & Rieger, C. (Eds.), Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, Volume 2 Cimicomorpha I. The Netherlands Entomological Society, Amsterdam, pp. 148–265.

    Ren, S.Z. (1981) Hemiptera: Berytidae, Enicocephalidae, Reduviidae, Nabidae. In: Huang, F. (Ed.) Insects of Xizang. Science Press, Beijing, pp. 173–182. (In Chinese with English summary).

    Wu, C.F. (1935) Catalogue of Chinese insects. Vol. II. Fan Memorial Institute of Biology, Peiping, 634 pp.