Aphelocheirus murcius Nieser & Millán, 1989

Carbonell, José Antonio, Abellán, Pedro, Arribas, Paula, Elder, Jean François & Millán, Andrés, 2011, The genus Aphelocheirus Westwood, 1833 (Hemiptera: Aphelocheiridae) in the Iberian Peninsula, Zootaxa 2771, pp. 1-16 : 5

Aphelocheirus murcius Nieser & Millán, 1989

Short description: water bug with a flat oval body and length between 8.1 and 9.1 mm ( Fig. 5 A). Colour: head, including antennae, yellowish, eyes blackish. Dorsally greyish thorax and abdomen, usually with broad yellowish lateral bands and yellowish marks in pronotum and posterio of abdomen. Yellow legs. Genitalia: heel of left paramere pointed, right paramere long and thin with rounded heel ( Fig. 5 C,D). Penis with lateral spines in apical part ( Fig. 5 B).

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FIGURE 5. Aphelocheirus murcius. A) habitus; B) penis (ventral and lateral view); C) Left paramere (dorsal and lateral view); D) right paramere.