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Issue: Vol. 5725 No. 4: 4 Dec. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-12-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5725.4.1
Page range: 451-474
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Further records of the tribe Gigantometopini (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Miridae, Isometopinae) with descriptions of three new genera and five new species

Institute of Biology; Biotechnology and Environmental Protection; Faculty of Natural Sciences; University of Silesia in Katowice; Bankowa 9; 40-007 Katowice; Poland.
The Center for Entomology & Parasitology Research; College of Medicine and Pharmacy; Duy Tan University; Da Nang 550000; Vietnam;
Department of Plant Protection; Faculty of Agrobiology; Food and Natural Resources; Czech University of Agriculture; CZ-165 21 Praha 6-Suchdol; Czech Republic.
Hemiptera biodiversity entomology jumping tree bugs Malaysia plant bugs Sulawesi taxonomy true bugs

Abstract

Gigantometopini Herczek, 1993 is a small tribe of jumping tree bugs (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Miridae, Isometopinae). Of the 16 extant species classified in Gigantometopini, 13 have been described in this century. In this paper, we described three new genera, Malaymetopidea gen. nov., Utarametopus gen. nov., and Wallacemetopus gen. nov. Five new species are described: Malaymetopidea maculata sp. nov. from Malaysia (Malay Peninsula), Planicapitus brunneus sp. nov. from South Thailand (Malay Peninsula), and Utarametopus linuspitti sp. nov., Utarametopus striatus sp. nov., and Wallacemetopus anteriotenebrosus sp. nov. from Indonesia (North Sulawesi). Habitus images and scanning electron micrographs of the selected structures of the new taxa are provided. New localities for Planicapitus luteus Taszakowski, Kim & Herczek, 2020, and Sulawesimetopus henryi Herczek, Gorczyca & Taszakowski, 2018 are recorded. Male genitalia of Malaymetopidea maculata sp. nov., Planicapitus brunneus sp. nov., and Wallacemetopus anteriotenebrosus sp. nov., and a distributional map of all Gigantometopini species are presented.

 

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How to Cite

Taszakowski, A., Kim, J. & Jindra, Z. (2025) Further records of the tribe Gigantometopini (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Miridae, Isometopinae) with descriptions of three new genera and five new species. Zootaxa, 5725 (4), 451–474. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5725.4.1