Macropes australis (Distant, 1901)

Gao, Cuiqing & Bu, Wenjun, 2010, A review of the Macropes Motschulsky (Hemiptera: Lygaeoidea: Blissidae) from China, with descriptions of three new species, Zootaxa 2366, pp. 55-68 : 56

Macropes australis (Distant, 1901)

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Ischnodemus australis Distant, 1901 , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 8, 468. Macropes australis: Zheng & Zou, 1981a , 73–74; Hua, 2000, 190.

We found more specimens of the species from Yunnan province, China.

Material examined. China: 1 male and 1 female, Ya county, Hainan, 1. II. 1935, F. K. To; 1 male, Luojia Mountain, Wuchang, Hubei, 10. VIII. 1957; 1 male, Jiangzhong Mountain, Longling, Yunnan, 8. X. 2002, 900– 950 m, Huaijun Xue.

Distribution. China: Hainan, Hubei, Taiwan and Yunnan; Australia, Malaysia, New Guinea, Philippines, and Sri Lanka.

Figures

FIGURE 1. (A) M. australis; (B) M. pronotalis; (C) M. exilis; (D) M. maai; (E) M. lobatus; (F) M. peculiaris sp. nov.; (G) M. varipennis; (H) M. dentipes. Each scale bar equal 1 mm.