Diaphorocoris dubreuili Montandon

Sites, Robert W. & Zettel, Herbert, 2011, Waterfall-inhabiting Naucoridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of southern India and Sri Lanka: Pogonocaudina Sites and Zettel, n. gen., and a review of Diaphorocoris with descriptions of two new species, Zootaxa 2760, pp. 1-17 : 13

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.203245

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5670830

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scientific name

Diaphorocoris dubreuili Montandon
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Diaphorocoris dubreuili Montandon View in CoL

Fig. 12 View FIGURES 11 – 14

Diaphorocoris dubreuili Montandon, 1908: 300 View in CoL .

Diagnosis. Size alone will distinguish D. dubreuili from its three known congeners. This species (9.36 mm: male) is the largest of the described species of Diaphorocoris . The ventral surface is generally a medium brown color. The lateral margin of the embolium has a row of short, brown, peg-like spines, and the brown coloration anterior to the distal mesal incursion of the yellowish-white marginal coloration extends close to the lateral margin ( Fig. 12 View FIGURES 11 – 14 ), similar to the embolar condition of D. arunachalami . The metaxyphus is longer than wide.

Discussion. Montandon (1908) reported that the type specimen would remain in his collection and named this species after the collector, J. Dubreuil. The type locality is Trichonopoly in Tamil Nadu state. No information concerning its biology or ecology has been published. We have observed specimens on the vertical rock faces of small waterfalls and seeps in Kerala and Tamil Nadu states.

Material examined. INDIA: Kerala St., N 0 8 o 44.283, E 77 o 0 7.208, elev 463 m, 15 March 2010, roadside seep & pools above, M. Arunachalam, S. Sundar, M. Muralidharan, C. Selvakumar (1 male); Tamil Nadu St., Arasi Parai, stream above Suruli Falls, Vaigai watershed, N 0 9 o 38.878, E 77 o 19.326, elev 1299 m, 13 March 2010, rocky stream with gravel & veg, M. Arunachalam (1 female).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Naucoridae

Genus

Diaphorocoris

Loc

Diaphorocoris dubreuili Montandon

Sites, Robert W. & Zettel, Herbert 2011
2011
Loc

Diaphorocoris dubreuili

Montandon 1908: 300
1908
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