Euscopus Stal 1870
Authors/Creators
- 1. Key Laboratory of Environment Change and Resources Use in Beibu Gulf of Ministry of Education, Nanning Normal University, Nanning 530001, China
- 2. Key Laboratory of Forest Protection of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Ecology and Nature Conservation Institute, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China
- 3. Department of Entomology and MOA Key Lab of Pest Monitoring and Green Management, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
- 4. Environment and Plant Protection Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou 571101, China
Description
Genus
EuscopusStål, 1870Euscopus Stål, 1870: 102: Distant 1903: 105; Liu 1981 a: 231. Type species by monotypy: Euscopus rufipes Stål, 1870.
Generic character.
Body oblique and covered with dense, short setae. Head length approximately equal to width, its apical part downward declining, slightly bulging at top, head width approximately equal to width of anterior pronotal lobe; labium extending to or over coxae of the middle leg, first segment not longer than head; antennae slightly thicker and shorter, first segment longest, second to fourth segments approximately equal in length; pronotum wider than long, lateral margin slightly upward upturned, transversal constriction obviously continuous. Costal margin of corium of the fore wing nearly straight; fore femora slightly thickened, subapical part of the ventral surface with two or three small spines; intersegmental sulcus of the fourth and fifth segments of abdominal sterna obviously bent forward, not straight to its lateral margin.
Remark.
A total of 16 species are currently recognized worldwide (Zhao et al. 2022), with four species reported in China. A new record species is reported from China in this paper.
Distribution.
Oriental region.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Stal
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Family
- Pyrrhocoridae
- Genus
- Euscopus
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Euscopus Stal, 1870 sec. Zhao, Ou, Cao, Liu & Wang, 2024
References
- Stal C (1870) Enumeratio Hemipterorum. Bidrag till en foreteckning ofver alla hittils kanda Hemiptera, jemte systematiska meddelanden. Pt. 1. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskaps Akademiens Handlingar (N. F.) 9: 90 - 124. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 12549
- Distant WL (1903) Rhynchota. – Vol. II. (Heteroptera). In: Blanford WT (Eds) The fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Taylor and Francis, London, xvii + 503 pp. [Published in two parts: pp. 1–242 (December 1903, incl. Pyrrhocoroidea), pp. 243–503 (April 1904)]. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222930408562466
- Liu SL (1981 a) Family Pyrrhocoridae. In: Hsiao TY, Ren SZ, Zheng LY, Jin HL, Zou HG, Liu SL (Eds) A handbook for the determination of the Chinese Hemiptera – Heteroptera. Vol. II. Science Press, Beijing, 222–235. [pls 28–31] [in Chinese, English summary]
- Zhao P, Cao LM, Long LZ (2022) Taxonomic study of the Superfamily Pyrrhocoroidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in China. China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing, 272 pp.