Ptilomera (P.) occidentalis Zettel, 2003

Jehamalar, E. Eyarin, Chandra, Kailash, Basu, Srimoyee & Selvakumar, C., 2018, Review of Ptilomera (Ptilomera) (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerridae) from India, with description of a new species, Zootaxa 4370 (5), pp. 501-518 : 511

Ptilomera (P.) occidentalis Zettel, 2003

Ptilomera (s. str.) occidentalis Zettel, 2003 . Linzer biol. Beitr., 35/2, 1131 (type locality: Bhimtal , Nainital District, Uttarakhand, India).

Diagnosis. The apex of the pygophore of the male is narrow and pointed, the paramere is subapically slender; the setal fringe of the male mid femur reaches almost to the base; the connexival process of the female is weakly curved and about as long as the dorsolateral lobe of the seventh abdominal segment (see Zettel 2003).

Distribution. Known only from Bhimtal, Nainital District, Uttarakhand, India, see Fig. 7B (formerly Uttarakhand was under Uttar Pradesh and on 9 November 2000, it was carved out from Uttar Pradesh).

Remarks. We have not studied the type specimens of P. occidentalis but have studied several specimens of P. laticaudata from Uttarakhand with pygophores with blunt and pointed tips and found no other differences. All the characters of P. occidentalis mentioned in the literature ( Zettel 2003) are similar to those of P. laticaudata . Thus, we suspect that P. occidentalis might be P. laticaudata and this needs further study.

Figures

FIGURES 7A–B. Distribution in India of: A, P. laticaudata (Hardwicke); B, P. occidentalis Zettel (Yellow triangles denote locality details from literature; red squares denotelocality details of materials examined in the present study).