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Issue: Vol. 4388 No. 4: 6 Mar. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-03-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4388.4.7
Page range: 557–566
Abstract views: 104
PDF downloaded: 2

Redescription of the thread-legged assassin bug Ploiaria anak (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae) from India, with notes on its biology

Post-Graduate Research Centre, Department of Zoology, Modern College of Arts, Science & Commerce, Shivajinagar, Pune 411 005, India.
Post-Graduate Research Centre, Department of Zoology, Modern College of Arts, Science & Commerce, Shivajinagar, Pune 411 005, India.
The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, London, UK.
Hemiptera Emesinae Ploiaria morphology spider association Oriental Region

Abstract

The thread-legged assassin bug species Ploiaria anak Distant, 1909 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae) from India is redescribed based on recently collected material from Pune District, India. Notes on the biology of the species and a key to species of the genus from India are provided. A lectotype is designated for P. anak. Both P. nuda and P. nude appear in the original description of the Ploiaria species described by Ravichandran & Livingstone (1989); nuda is selected as the correct original spelling. As this name is a junior homonym of P. nuda Miller, 1950, it is replaced by the new name P. raviaspinosa nom. nov.

 

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