Lelia Walker, 1867

Fan, Zhong-Hua & Liu, Guo-Qing, 2010, The genus Lelia Walker, 1876, with the Description of One New Species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Pentatominae), Zootaxa 2512, pp. 56-62 : 56-57

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.196067

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5662567

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Lelia Walker, 1867
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Lelia Walker, 1867

Rhaphigaster subg. Prionochilus, Dallas, 1849: 191 View in CoL (junior homonym of Prionochilus Strick, 1841 View in CoL , Aves; syn. Reuter, 1890: 248);

Lelia Walker, 1867: 406 ;

Renardia Jakovlev, 1876: 15 View in CoL –17. (junior homonym of Renardia Motschulsky, 1865 View in CoL , Coleoptera View in CoL ; syn. Reuter, 1890: 248)

Type species: Lelia porrigens Walker, 1867 (= Tropicoris decempunctatus Motschulsky, 1860 ).

Diagnosis: Body large. Mandibular plates wide, longer than clypeus, convergent apically or leaving a quadrate incision in apex of head. 1st antennal segment not reaching head apex, 3rd longer than 2nd. Pronotum with anterolateral margins coarsely dentate, lateral angles strongly and robustly protuberant with apices pointed forwards. Mesosternum carinate mesially. Metasternum intumescent and slightly carinate in the middle. Ostiolar peritreme very short. Tibiae sulcate. Tarsi 3-segmented. Abdominal basal spine with sharp apex, projecting cephalad beyond mesocoxae.

Male genitalia: Paramere L-shaped. Aedeagus without sclerotized dorsal processes, with developed apical conjunctival lobe that long and slim, and a pair of basolateral conjunctival lobes more or less swollen.

Female genitalia: We dissected several female specimens of L. decempunctata to observe the spermatheca. In the limited specimens we observed (figs. 19–21), each spermatheca has three finger-like processes on the bulb, but both the lengths and the shapes of them are variable in different individuals; moreover, the size of the distal flange also is variable, so the spermatheca is not a stable taxonomic character in the genus Lelia Walker.

Dallas, W. S. (1849) Notice of some hemipterous insects from Boutan (East Indies), with descriptions of the new species. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 5, 186 - 194.

Motschulsky, T. V. (1860) Catalogue des insectes rapportes des environs du fl. Amour, depuis la Schilka jusqu'a Nikolaevsk, examines et enumeres. Bulletin of the Society of Nature, Moscow, 32 (2), 487 - 507.

Reuter, O. M. (1890) Adnotationes Hemipterologicae. Revue d'Entomologie 9 (8), 248 - 254.

Walker, F. (1867) Catalogue of the specimens of heteropterous Hemiptera in the collection of the British Museum. Part II. Scutata. E. Newman, London, pp. 241 - 417.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Pentatomidae