Meschia pugnax Distant, 1910

Malipatil, M. B., Yeshwanth, H. M. & Kondorosy, Előd, 2021, Taxonomic position of Heissothignus and review of the species of Meschia (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Meschiidae), Zootaxa 5032 (2), pp. 283-289 : 285

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5032.2.9

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scientific name

Meschia pugnax Distant, 1910
status

 

Distant, W. E. (1910) The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon & Burma. Rhynchota Vol. V. Heteroptera: Appendix. Taylor and Francis, London, 362 pp.

Gao, C. & Malipatil, M. B. (2019) Meschia zoui sp. nov., first representative of the family Meschiidae from China (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea), Zootaxa, 4603 (1), 172 - 182. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4603.1.9

Malipatil, M. B. (2014) Meschiidae, a new family of Lygaeoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from India and Australia, with descriptions of a new genus and two new species. Zootaxa, 3815 (2), 233 - 248. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3815.2.4

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FIGURES 3 & 4. 3, Meschia pugnax Distant, 1910, syntype female with label data; 4, Meschia quadrimaculata Distant, 1910, syntype female with label data.

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FIGURES 5–8. Meschia pugnax Distant, 1910, habitus showing variations in colour markings: 5, male, Bengaluru (Karnataka); 6, male, Bengaluru (Karnataka); 7, male, Chikkaballapura (Karnataka); 8, male, Bengaluru (Karnataka). Mean body length of specimens in Figs 5–8 is 3.90 mm.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Meschiidae

Genus

Meschia