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Embiophila China 1953
Creators
- 1. State Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Forestry Biosecurity, Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Description
Genus
EmbiophilaChina, 1953Embiophila China, 1953: 67. Type species by original designation: Embiophila myersi China, 1953.
Diagnosis.
Embiophila can be distinguished from other genera of Plokiophilidae by the following combination of characters: head lacking elongate neck behind eyes; legs relatively short and stout; fore and mid femora armed ventrally with spines; tarsi two-segmented, relatively short; hemelytron with distinct cuneus; pygophore tubular.
Diversity and distribution.
The genus currently contains four species, one from the Afrotropical Region (Carayon 1974), two from the Neotropical Region (China 1953; Carpintero and Dellapé 2005), and one described herein from the Oriental Region (Fig. 5).
Notes
Published as part of Xiong, Haoyang, Chen, Zhuo, Li, Hu & Cai, Wanzhi, 2025, First record of silk-loving genus Embiophila (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Plokiophilidae) from Asia, with description of a new species from China, pp. 295-307 in ZooKeys 1248 on pages 295-307, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1248.155672
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- China
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Family
- Plokiophilidae
- Genus
- Embiophila
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Embiophila China, 1953 sec. Xiong, Chen, Li & Cai, 2025
References
- China WE (1953) A new subfamily of Microphysidae (Hemiptera - Heteroptera). Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 12) 6: 67 - 74. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222935308654396
- Carayon J (1974) Etude sur les hémiptères Plokiophilidae. Annals Société Entomologique de France (N. S.) 10: 499–525. https://doi.org/10.1080/21686351.1974.12278162
- China WE (1953) A new subfamily of Microphysidae (Hemiptera - Heteroptera). Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 12) 6: 67–74. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222935308654396
- Carpintero DL, Dellapé PM (2005) A new species and first record of Embiophila (Heteroptera: Plokiophilidae) from Nicaragua. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment 40 (1): 65–68. https://doi.org/10.1080/01650520400007322