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Issue: Vol. 5514 No. 2: 26 Sept. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-09-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5514.2.2
Page range: 129-142
Abstract views: 57
PDF downloaded: 5

Austropeirates maculipes gen. et sp. nov. and first record of the genus Peirates from Australia (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae)

Agriculture Victoria; AgriBio; 5 Ring Road; Bundoora; Victoria 3083; Australia; La Trobe University; Bundoora; Victoria 3083; Australia
College of Life Sciences; Capital Normal University; Beijing 100048; China
Hemiptera Australian Region new genus and species new record description redescription key to genera

Abstract

Austropeirates gen. nov. and its type species, A. maculipes sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Peiratinae) are described based on macropterous male and micropterous female individuals from Australia and compared with related taxa within the subfamily Peiratinae. Peirates castaneipennis Reuter, 1887, so far known to occur in New Caledonia, is recorded from several localities in Australia: as the only representative of the genus Peirates Serville, 1831. A key is provided for the six genera of Peiratinae occurring in Australia.

 

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