Baptista Distant 1903
Creators
- 1. Institute of Entomology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, 94 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300071, China
- 2. Department of Natural Sciences, Bishop Museum, 1525 Bernice Street, Honolulu, HI 96817, USA
Description
Genus Baptista Distant, 1903. New record for China
Baptista Distant, 1903: 173. Type species: B. gestroi Distant, 1903: 173, by original designation.
Baptista: Andersen 1989: 365; Kovac & Yang 2000: 163; Zettel 2004: 444.
Diagnosis. Medium-sized veliids (2.4–4.1 mm), form apterous or macropterous, body elongate, covered by dense pubescence. Head produced posteriorly, extending well behind hind margin of eyes. Antennae long and slender, antennal segment I slightly curved, segment III twice as long as segment II, segments III and IV very slender, almost filiform. Clypeus protruding, rostrum slender with its apex reaching middle of mesosternum. Pronotum of macropterous form pentagonal and pronotum of apterous form with broadly rounded posterior margin. Macropterous hemelytra with four closed cells. Hind leg longer than middle leg, male fore leg specially modified (in B. gestroi and B. femoralis species groups, femur or tibia curved, with tumescence, pilosities, etc.; in B. collaris species group, tibia with conspicuous row of short, stout, blackish spines or protuberances ventrally). Fore tibia of male with short grasping comb. In B. femoralis species group, abdominal segments VI and VII usually strongly modified with finger-like extensions. Male genital segments distinctly protruding. Parameres large, symmetrical (in B. femoralis species group, parameres falciform; in B. collaris species group, parameres distally more or less dilated). Female genital segments plainly visible behind sternite VII.
Baptista is similar to the genera Lathriovelia, Polhemovelia, and Geovelia. Baptista is distinguished from Lathriovelia by the eyes lying adjacent to the anterolateral angles of the pronotum (in Lathriovelia, the eyes are distinctly separated from the anterolateral angles). Baptista differs from Polhemovelia and Geovelia by having the male fore leg highly modified, with the femur or tibia curved, and their ventral surfaces bearing various tumescences, pilosities, protuberances, or a conspicuous row of short, stout, blackish spines (Figs. 14 –20).
Distribution. Burma, Laos, India, Thailand, West Malaysia, China (Yunnan) (Fig 46).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Veliidae
- Genus
- Baptista
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Distant
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Baptista Distant, 1903 sec. Ye, Polhemus & Bu, 2014
References
- Andersen, N. M. (1989) The Old World Microveliinae (Hemiptera: Veliidae). II. Three new species of Baptista Distant and a new genus from the Oriental region. Entomologica Scandinavica, 19, 363 - 380. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1163 / 187631289 x 00258
- Kovac, D. & Yang, C. M. (2000) Revision of the Oriental bamboo - inhabiting semiaquatic bug genus Lathriovelia Andersen, 1989 (Heteroptera: Veliidae) with description of L. rickmersi, new species, and notes on the genus Baptista Distant, 1903. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 48 (1), 153 - 165.
- Zettel, H. (2004) Baptista hoedli sp. n. (Insecta: Heteroptera: Veliidae) from Laos, and definition of the B. collaris species group. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, 105 B, 441 - 445.