Ranatra biroi, Lundblad, 1933
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Ranatra biroi View in CoL group sensu Lansbury, 1972
Diagnosis. Smaller species, body length: males 19–27, females 21–29; siphon moderate to long, ratio of siphon length: body length around 0.6–1.05; vertex in lateral view higher than eye, evenly round, without or with very low tubercle; ratio of eye width: interocular width 0.9–1.3; ratio of anterior pronotal length: posterior pronotal length 1.3–1.8; fore femur slender, flexor side with two teeth nearer to distal end, larger one proximal to smaller one, pre-apical teeth absent; metasternum with posterior margin usually convex (sometimes straight or slightly emarginated); operculum of female at most reaching apex of connexivum.
Species included. Ranatra longipes Stål, 1861 , R. biroi Lundblad, 1933 , R. digitata Hafiz & Pradhan, 1949 , R. natunaensis Lansbury, 1972 , R. longipes celebensis Lansbury, 1972 , R. thai Lansbury, 1972 , R. flagellata Lansbury, 1972 , R. libera Zettel, 1999 , R. incisa Chen, Nieser & Ho, 2004 , R. recta Chen, Nieser & Ho, 2004 , R. rafflesi Tran & D. Polhemus, 2012 , R. nieseri Tran & Nguyen, 2016 , R. cardamomensis Zettel, Phauk, Kheam & Freitag, 2017 , and at least two undescribed species (Tran & Zettel, in prep.).
Chen PP, Nieser N & Ho J (2004) Review of Chinese Ranatrinae (Hemiptera: Nepidae), with descriptions of four new species of Ranatra Fabricius. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 147: 81 - 102.
Hafiz HA & Pradhan KS (1949) Notes on a collection of aquatic Rhynchota from the Patna state, Orissa, with descriptions of two new species. Records of the Indian Museum, 45 (1947): 347 - 376.
Lansbury I (1972) A review of the Oriental species of Ranatra Fabricius (Hemiptera-Heteroptera: Nepidae). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 124: 287 - 341.
Lundblad OM (1933) Zur Kenntniss der aquatilen und semiaquatilen Hemipteren von Sumatra, Java und Bali. Archiv fur Hydrobiologie Supplementum, 12: 1 - 195, 263 - 489.
Polhemus DA & Polhemus JT (2012) Notes on Ranatra (Heteroptera: Nepidae) from Burma and the Andaman Islands, with description of a new species. Entomologica Americana, 118 (1): 242 - 251.
Stal C (1861) Nova methodus familias quasdam Hemipterorum disponendi. Ofversigt af Kungliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Forhandlingar, 18: 195 - 212.
Tran AD & Nguyen VV (2016) Notes on the subfamily Ranatrinae (Hemiptera: Nepidae) from Vietnam, with two new species of Ranatra Fabricius, 1790. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology, 19 (2): 515 - 523.
Zettel H (1999) Ranatra libera sp. n. (Heteroptera: Nepidae) from Burma. Linzer biologische Beitrage, 31 (1): 427 - 430.
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