Arocatus rufipes Stål, 1872

Gao, Cuiqing, Kondorosy, Előd & Bu, Wenjun, 2013, A Review Of The Genus Arocatus From Palaearctic And Oriental Regions (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeidae), Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 61 (2), pp. 687-704 : 697

Arocatus rufipes Stål, 1872

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Arocatus rufipes Stål, 1872: 42 . Holotype (female): Russia, “Viäkta” [= Kyakhta] (not Viätka in Péricart, 2001: 39); NHRS.

Arocatus fasciatus Jakovlev, 1889: 328 (syn. Kiritshenko & Kerzhner, 1980: 73). Lectotype ( Péricart, 1998: 124) (male): Russia, Troitskossavsk; ZMAS.

References. — Stichel, 1959: 314 (listed); Slater, 1964a: 28 (catalogue); Zheng & Zou, 1981: 17 ( fasciatus , keyed, redescription); Slater & O’Donnell, 1995: 3 (catalogue); Nonnaizab, 1999: 70 ( fasciatus , listed); Hua, 2000: 187 (listed); Péricart, 2001: 38 (catalogue); Nonnaizab & Li, 2005: 84 (listed, distribution); Xie et al., 2009: 341 (keyed, redescription); Vinokurov et al., 2010: 182 (catalogue); Jia et al., 2011: 391 ( fasciatus , Ningxia record); Ishikawa et al., 2012: 377, plate 84 (redescription, distribution, photo).

Diagnosis. — Body colour varies from yellowish brown to reddish brown. Dorsum with very short, decumbent hairs. Antennae and legs invariably mostly red. Pronotum often of red ground colour with black coarse punctures. Corium with distinct black transverse streak and apical spot. Connexivum bicoloured. Pygophore and paramere as shown in Fig. 3G, H, I .

Type material examined. — Holotype, female: Viäkta (hw) // A. Dohrn (hw) // (red) Typus ( NHRS).

Additional material examined. — CHINA: Beijing: 1 male, Xishan , coll. S. H. Ying & S. H. Li, 22 Jun.1957 ( NKUM) ; Shaanxi: 1 female, Jiyukou, Qinling , coll. Y. Zhou, 27 May 1952 ( NKUM) ; Tianjin: 3 males, 5 females, Baxianzhuozi, Jixian county , coll. H. G. Zou & W. J. Bu, 18 Jul.1985 ( NKUM) ; JAPAN: Hokkaido: 1 female, Ins. Jesso [= Hokkaido], Sapporo, coll. Matsumura ( HNHM) ; MONGOLIA (Central): 5 males, 3 females, Mongol Els n. res., 47°24'N 103°39'E, dunes, coll. J. Halada, 31 Jul.2005, alt. 1320 m ( NMPC) .

Host plants. — Ulmus pumila var. pendula (new discovery in our study).

Distribution. — Asia: China (Inner Mongolia, Beijing, * Tianjin, Hebei, Ningxia, Shaanxi), Japan, Mongolia, Russia (East Siberia, Far East).

Figures

Fig. 3. A–G, J, K, Pygophores in posterodorsal or posterior view. A, B, A. melanocephalus; C, D, A. melanostoma; E, F, A. pseudosericans, new species; G, A. rufipes; J, K, A. sericans. H, I, L–T: Left parameres in different aspects. H, I, A. rufipes; L, M, A. melanocephalus; N–P, A. melanostoma; Q, R, A. pseudosericans, new species; S, T, A. sericans. Scale bars = 0.5 mm (A–G, J, K), 0.1 mm (H, I, L–T).

Fig. 4. Arocatus spp., dorsal, ventral or lateral view. A, B, A. pilosulus, one of the syntypes; C, A. pilosulus; D, E, A. pseudosericans, new species, holotype; F, A. pseudosericans, new species; G, A. roeselii; H, A. rufipes; I, A. suboeneus. Scale bars = 5.0 mm.