Germalus kinbergi ( Stål, 1860 )

Tang, Jin, Zhang, Gongaote, Guo, Junqi, Luo, Lingxuan, Jiang, Jiamei & Pan, Hongbo, 2023, Big-Eyed Bugs Of The Malagasy Region (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea: Geocoridae), Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 69 (3), pp. 247-264 : 257-259

publication ID

https://zoobank.org/D76B85CE-96F8-40D4-BB4F-DC2856887319

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CC87D1-C029-B214-6B9A-EDECAEB7FEB7

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Felipe

scientific name

Germalus kinbergi ( Stål, 1860 )
status

 

Germalus kinbergi ( Stål, 1860) View in CoL

( Fig. 18 View Figs 15–20 )

Material studied: as in KÓBOR and KONDOROSY (2016).

Diagnosis. Colouration generally ochraceous with dark fuscous punctuation. Vertex with a median longitudinal fuscous stripe extending from apex of clypeus to middle of vertex. Humeral angles with rounded, pale brownish spots. Corium-membrane margin sometimes red. Abdominal dorsum with dark brown, irregular longitudinal bands laterally. Eyes moderately stylate

12 = dorsal habitus; 13 = lateral view; 14 = labels. Scale bar = 0.5 mm for figures 12–13, Fig. View Figs 12–14

14 not to scale. (Photos: Rachel Diaz-Bastin, KNHM)

with eye stalks straight. Ocular sulcus complete, well-defined. Antennomere I maculate. Pronotum trapeziform with lateral margins slightly constricted. Scutellum subequilateral triangular with trifurcate median carina well-developed but interrupted by punctures medially. Clavus of hemelytron with margins subparallel and claval commissure complete; corial margin with a line of puncutres “breaking” at two-third of length ( Fig. 18 View Figs 15–20 ). Peritreme spout,

(female, NHMW). Scale bar = 1 mm for all images i.e., auricle with dorsal supporting projection; dorsal supporting projection curved, moderately elongate; evaporatorium covering mesepimeron and metepisternum. Femora with brown maculae.

Distribution. The species is known from Mauritius and Réunion islands ( KÓBOR & KONDOROSY 2016).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Geocoridae

Genus

Germalus

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