Locoptiris Villiers, 1943

Rédei, Dávid & Tsai, Jing-Fu, 2011, The assassin bug subfamilies Centrocnemidinae and Holoptilinae in Taiwan (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 51 (2), pp. 411-442 : 431-432

Key to the species of Locoptiris Villiers, 1943

1 Fore wings with simple longitudinal veins; membrane of fore wing rather uniformly whitish or light gray. Afrotropical Region ( Locoptiris burgeoni species group). .......... 2

– Longitudinal veins of fore wings ramifying apically; membrane with a large dark spot centrally. Oriental Region ( Locoptiris pendleburyi species group). .............................. 3

2 Hind leg testaceous, femoro-tibial articulation widely black; body length about 3.5 mm. Democratic Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast. ........................ L. burgeoni Villiers, 1943

– Hind leg testaceous, femur with two brown annuli, one apical and one around middle, tibia rather uniformly testaceous; body length about 2.6 mm. Ivory Coast. ..................... ............................................................................................... L. couturieri Villiers, 1986

3 Infolding of ventral rim with a flattened, dorsally boadly convex process; basal sclerite of endosoma large, about as long as ventrobasal portion of struts; lateral sclerite of endosoma nearly twice as long as ventrobasal portion of struts. Malay Peninsula, Borneo. ............. ........................................................................................... L. pendleburyi ( Miller, 1940)

– Infolding of ventral rim with a flattened, dorsally broadly trilobed process ( Fig. 48 ); phallus as in Figs. 52–53 , basal sclerite of endosoma ( Figs. 52–53 : bsc) small, much shorter than ventrobasal portion of struts, restricted to extreme base of phallotheca; lateral sclerite of endosoma ( Fig. 52 : lsc) slightly longer than ventrobasal portion of struts ( Fig. 52 : strvb). Taiwan. ....................................................................................... L. taiwanensis sp. nov.

Figures

Figs. 46–53. Locoptiris taiwanensis sp. nov., male genitalia. 46 – segment VIII and genital capsule, dorsal view; 47 – same, lateral view; 48 – same, posterior view, hairs omitted; 49 – apex of genital capsule, lateral view; 50–51 – left paramere, two different aspects; 52 – phallus, lateral view; 53 – same, ventral view. Legends as in Figs. 22–24, furthermore: mp = median projection of infolding of ventral rim of pygophore; strvb = ventrobasal portion of struts; strda = dorsoapical portion of struts; val = ventroapical lobe; VIII = segment VIII. Scales in mm.