Modicarventus, Kirman, 1989

Larivière, Marie-Claude & Larochelle, André, 2022, Synopsis of the subfamily Carventinae in New Zealand (Heteroptera: Aradidae), Insecta Mundi 2022 (961), pp. 1-54 : 22-23

Key to species of Modicarventus

1. Head shorter than wide across eyes. Thorax moderately narrowed anteriorly. Lateral margins of pronotum, mesonotum, and metanotum broadly and contiguously granulate; rows of granules well defined. Fig. 60–61 . [Body length about 2.5 mm (male), 3.1 mm (female). North Island : Northland (ND), northernmost Aupouri Peninsula]....................... Modicarventus wisei Kirman

— Head about as long as wide across eyes. Thorax distinctly narrowed anteriorly. Lateral margins of pronotum narrowly granulate, margins of mesonotum and metanotum barely granulate; rows of granules well defined on pronotum only. Fig. 62–63 . [Body length about 2.9 mm (male), 3.5 mm (female). North Island: Northland (ND), south of Aupouri Peninsula to Auckland (AK)].............................................. Modicarventus kirmani Larivière and Larochelle , new species

Figures

Figures 60–63. Dorsal habitus. 60) Modicarventus wisei, male paratype (photo D. Hoffman). 61) M. wisei, female holotype (photo Larivière and Larochelle 2004). 62) M. kirmani new species, male. 63) M. kirmani new species,