Germalus infans Van Duzee, 1932

Kóbor, Péter, 2020, An overview of the big-eyed bug fauna of French Polynesia (Heteroptera Lygaeoidea: Geocoridae), Zootaxa 4743 (3), pp. 359-370 : 364

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4743.3.3
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3691556
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scientific name	Germalus infans Van Duzee, 1932
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Germalus infans Van Duzee, 1932 View in CoL

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LSID: http://lsid.speciesfile.org/urn:lsid:Lygaeoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:488811

Material studied. Holotype: “Hatutaa I. / Marquesas Is. // IX-30-29 // middle of / Eastside // on Pisonia sp. / A. M. Adams / Collector // Pacific Entomo- / logical Survey // TYPE / infans [hw.] // Holotype / No. 599 / Germalus / infans / Van Duzee [hw.]” (#m, BPBM) . Paratype: “Hatutaa I. / Marquesas Is. // IX-30-29 // middle of / Eastside // on Pisonia sp. / A. M. Adams / Collector // Pacific Entomo- / logical Survey // TYPE / infans [hw.] // Allotype / / No. 599a / Germalus / infans / Van Duzee [hw.]” (#f, BPBM) .

Further material: “Ua Huka, ??/04/2010, hand picking, leg. T. Ramage” (♂, PCTR)

Diagnosis. Pale ochraceous species with brownish median line on vertex, brownish punctation and reddish decoration on thoracic dorsum and connexiva. Punctation of pronotum coarser anterior to and around callosities than posterior to callosities. Scutellum basally almost impunctate. MTSEA with evaporative area oblong, reaching anterior margin of metapleurite; ostiole small, drop-shaped with vestibular scar narrow, not reaching venter. Evaporative area extended, reaching from anterior half of mesopleurite to supracoxal lobe of metapleurite.

Distribution. Known as endemic to Marquesas Islands.