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Ranatra filiformis Fabricius 1790

Description

Ranatra filiformis group sensu Lansbury, 1972

Diagnosis. Smaller species, body length: males 22–27, females 24–30; siphon moderate to long, ratio of siphon length: body length around 0.7–0.9; vertex in lateral view higher than eye, evenly round, without or with very low tubercle; ratio of eye width: interocular width 0.65–0.98; ratio of anterior pronotal length: posterior pronotal length 1.3–1.7; fore femur slender, flexor side with two teeth nearer to distal end, larger one proximal to smaller one, pre-apical teeth absent; metasternum with posterior margin usually convex (sometimes straight or slightly emarginated); operculum of female at most reaching apex of connexivum.

Species included. Ranatra filiformis Fabricius, 1790, R. diminuta Montandon, 1907, R. occidentalis Lansbury, 1972, and R. akoitachta Nieser, 1996.

Note. For comparison between species of this group, see Lansbury (1972) and Nieser (1996).

Notes

Published as part of Tran, A. D. & Zettel, H., 2021, Taxonomic review of the Ranatra gracilis group sensu Lansbury, 1972 (Nepomorpha: Nepidae), with descriptions of four new species, pp. 45-70 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 69 on page 48, DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2021-0005, http://zenodo.org/record/5351678

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Nepidae
Genus
Ranatra
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Fabricius
Species
filiformis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ranatra filiformis Fabricius, 1790 sec. Tran & Zettel, 2021

References

  • Lansbury I (1972) A review of the Oriental species of Ranatra Fabricius (Hemiptera-Heteroptera: Nepidae). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 124: 287 - 341.
  • Fabricius JC (1790) Nova Insectorum Genera. Skrivter af Naturhistorie-selskabet, Kiobenhavn, 1: 213 - 228.
  • Montandon AL (1907) Quelques especes du genre Ranatra des collections du Museum de Paris. Annales de la Societe entomologique de France, 76: 49 - 66.