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Issue: Vol. 4184 No. 1: 3 Nov. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-11-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4184.1.12
Page range: 184–192
Abstract views: 105
PDF downloaded: 3

First record of the thread-legged assassin bug genus Proguithera from Japan, with description of a new species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae)

Laboratory of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Atsugi-shi, Kanagawa, Japan.
Okinawa-shi, Okinawa, Japan.
Hemiptera Emesinae Ishigaki-jima Island Leistarchini Ryukyu Islands subtropical zone

Abstract

The thread-legged assassin bug genus Proguithera Wygodzinsky, 1966 of the emesine tribe Leistarchini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) is recorded from Japan for the first time, and a new species P. kiinugama sp. nov., the third representative of this genus, is described based on specimens from Ishigaki-jima Island in the Ryukyu Islands. This new species can be distinguished from its congeners primarily by the absence of a median longitudinal sulcus on the anterior pronotal lobe, forewing with an incomplete cross vein connecting the M+Cu vein and a submarginal vein basad of the discal cell, and the anteroventral series of the profemur consisting of about 30 spine-like setae.

 

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