Sirthenea, Chłond, 2018

Chłond, Dominik, 2018, A taxonomic revision of the genus Sirthenea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) of the Old World, Zootaxa 4520 (1), pp. 1-85 : 64

Key to the Australian species of Sirthenea

1 Scape short, reaching apex of head; legs dark brown; mid tibia without fossula spongiosa; eyes not reaching dorsal and ventral outlines of head in lateral view ( Fig. 144 )....................................... S. (Sirthenea) obscura ( Stål, 1866)

- Scape long, surpassing apex of head; legs yellowish; mid tibia with fossula spongiosa; eyes reaching dorsal and ventral outlines of head in lateral view ( Figs. 131 , 132 , 159–163 )........................ S. (Monogmus) laevicollis Horváth, 1909

Figures

FIGURE 131. Sirthenea laevicollis Horváth, 1909—macropterous male, dorsal habitus.

FIGURE 132. Sirthenea laevicollis Horváth, 1909—brachypterous female, dorsal habitus.

FIGURE 144. Sirthenea obscura (Stål, 1866)—dorsal habitus.

FIGURES 159–163. Fossula spongiosa on middle tibia of Sirthenea laevicollis Horváth, 1909: 159—fossula on middle tibia of brachypterous female; 160—SEM image of fossula spongiosa on middle tibia of male; 161—SEM image of apical part of fossula spongiosa on middle tibia of male; 162—SEM image of apical part of fossula spongiosa on middle tibia of male; 163— SEM image of setae of fossula spongiosa on middle tibia of male.