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Issue: Vol. 5481 No. 3: 17 Jul. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-07-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5481.3.1
Page range: 301-325
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Two new species of the genus Sycanus Amyot & Serville (Insecta: Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae) from Vietnam

Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources; Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology; Hanoi; Vietnam; 18 Hoang Quoc Viet Road; Nghia Do; Cau Giay; Hanoi; Vietnam
Graduate University of Science and Technology; Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology; 18 Hoang Quoc Viet Road; Nghia Do; Cau Giay; Hanoi; Vietnam
Vinh University; 182 Le Duan; Vinh; Nghe An; Vietnam
Faculty of Biology; Vietnam National University - VNU University of Science; 334 Nguyen Trai; Thanh Xuan; Hanoi; Vietnam
Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources; Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology; Hanoi; Vietnam; 18 Hoang Quoc Viet Road; Nghia Do; Cau Giay; Hanoi; Vietnam
Hemiptera assassin bug Reduviidae Vietnam morphology molecular phylogeny taxonomy

Abstract

The genus Sycanus Amyot & Serville, 1843 includes seventy-two valid species distributed in African and Asian regions. Among those species, eight of them, Sycanus atrocoeruleus Signoret, 1862, S. bifidus (Fabricius, 1787), S. croceus Hsiao, 1979, S. falleni Stål, 1863, S. minor Hsiao, 1979, S. rubricatus Stål, 1874, S. sichuanensis Hsiao, 1979, and S. ventralis Distant, 1919, were described and recorded in Vietnam. In this study, we examined species of Sycanus collected from Vietnam based on external morphology, male genital morphology, and molecular phylogenetic analyses inferred from mitochondrial COI sequences. Consequently, two new species, Sycanus thuathienhuensis sp. nov. and Sycanus taynguyenensis sp. nov., were discovered, described, and illustrated here.

 

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