Belostoma fittkaui, De Carlo, 1966

Stefanello, Fabiano, 2021, The new Belostoma fittkaui species group with supplemental descriptions of B fittkaui De Carlo and B. sayagoi De Carlo, Zootaxa 4942 (4), pp. 583-591 : 584

Belostoma fittkaui group

Diagnosis. This group is recognized by the following combination of characters: eyes triangular, article II of the labium distinctly shorter than III, prosternal keel quite elevated with the apex rounded and projecting forward, pilosity covering the entirety of the sterna and connexivum including the second and seventh segments ( Fig. 1 ).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Diagnostic characters of the Belostoma fittkaui group:A—lateral view of the head showing the condition of articles II and III of the labium and prosternal keel; B—ventral view of abdomen showing the pilosity of segments II–VII; C—dorsal view of head and pronotum of Belostoma fittkaui; D—dorsal view of head and pronotum of B. sayagoi. ant = anteoculus, con = connexivum, int = interoculus, lab = labium, prk = prosternal keel, pro = pronotum, ste = sternites. The scale bar applies only to C and D.