Bittacus Latreille, 1805

Zhang, Yan-Na, Du, Wei & Hua, Bao-Zhen, 2020, Three new species of the genus Bittacus Latreille, 1805 (Mecoptera: Bittacidae), with a key to the species of Bittacidae in South China, Zootaxa 4718 (3), pp. 381-390 : 382-383

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4718.3.6

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5919216

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Bittacus Latreille, 1805
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Bittacus Latreille, 1805 View in CoL

Bittacus Latreille, 1805: 20 View in CoL ; Esben-Petersen, 1921: 117; Carpenter, 1931: 257; Cheng, 1957: 90; Penny & Byers, 1979: 366. Type species: Panorpa italica Müller, 1766 .

Diagnosis. The genus Bittacus is similar to Terrobittacus , but can be differentiated from the latter by the following characters: 1) male epandrial lobe longer than half length of gonocoxite (cf. epandrial lobe distinctly shorter than half length of gonocoxite; 3) tergum X saddle-like (cf. tergum X vestigial or absent); 4) female subgenital plate separated mesally by a membranous area (cf. subgenital plate almost fused mesally).

Bittacus differs from Bicaubittacus by the male gonocoxites lacking paired prolongations distally.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Mecoptera

Family

Bittacidae

Loc

Bittacus Latreille, 1805

Zhang, Yan-Na, Du, Wei & Hua, Bao-Zhen 2020
2020
Loc

Bittacus

Penny, N. D. & Byers, G. W. 1979: 366
1979
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