Heleocoris bengalensis montandoni Lundblad, 1933

Xie, Tong-Yin & Liu, Guo-Qing, 2015, The creeping water bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Naucoridae) of China, with description of a new species, Zootaxa 3911 (4), pp. 571-580 : 578

Heleocoris bengalensis montandoni Lundblad, 1933

( Figs. 16, 17 )

Heleocoris bengalensis montandoni Lundblad 1933: 70 ; Sites & Vitheepradit, 2011: 2 .

Diagnosis. Body size small, elongate. Posterior margin of head with brown punctures coalescent ( Fig. 16 ). The dark punctuation and associated maculation on the head and pronotum denser; posterior margin of pronotum with longitudinal marks; hemelytron with large yellow patch on embolium. Abdomen laterally slightly surpassing hemelytra in males ( Fig 16 ); Ventral laterotergites II–VII each light anteriorly, dark posteriorly. Metaxyphus without stout spines. The metaxyphus about as long as wide, produced apically, has dorsally recessed posterolateral flanges.

Males with abdominal asymmetry slight. Aedeagus elongate, linear, narrow basally, widest at middle of part visible beyond pygophore; parameres elongate, directed apically; both of parameres symmetrical; pygophore with fine setae. Subgenital plate symmetry.

Material examined. CHINA, Yunnan Province: 1♂, Mengla County (N21.96°, E101.21°), alt. 625m, 7.VII. 2010, Qing ZHAO leg.; 1♀, same date as above, alt. 641m, 16.VIII. 2010, Zhen YE leg.

Distribution. China (Yunnan); Vietnam; Laos; Thailand; Sri Lanka; Malaysia; Singapore; Indonesia (Java, Sumatra).

Figures

FIGURES 10 – 18. Dorsal habitus photographs of Naucoridae of China. 10: Heleocoris breviceps Montandon (♀); 11: H. strabus Montandon (♂); 12: H. strabus Montandon (♀); 13: T. scutellaris (Stål) (♀); 14: H. ovatus Montandon (♂); 15: H. ovatus Montandon (♀); 16: H. bengalensis montandoni Lundblad (♂); 17: H. bengalensis montandoni Lundblad (♀); 18: Ilyocoris cimicoides cimicoides (Linnaeus) (♂).