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Trachylestes turneri Miller 1958

Description

Trachylestes turneri (Miller, 1958)

(Figs. 3–4)

Penthikocleptes turneri Miller, 1958: 79. Trachylestes turneri: Malipatil, 1991: 938.

Description. The species has been adequately described and illustrated (as Penthikocleptes turneri) by Miller (1958), the followings are the additions:

Measurements (of holotype male of the junior synonym P. t ur n e r i first, followed by of a non-type female). Body length 9.0, 8.0; maximum width 2.70, 2.17. Length head 2.00, 1.89, width across eyes 1.08, 1.06, interocular space 0.56, 0.54, interocellar space 0.36, 0.36, eye-ocellar space 0.16, 0.13, eye length 0.44, 0.46, eye width 0.26, 0.25. Lengths of antennal segments: I, 2.40, 2.27, II, 1.16, 1.21, III, 0.76, 0.80, IV, missing, missing. Pronotum median length 1.60, 1.72; width posterior margin 2.25, 2.00. Scutellum length 0.73, 0.71, width 0.90, 0.74. Length hemelytra 5.40, 4.88; length corium 3.60, 3.28; width membrane 1.80, 1.68.

Distribution. Western Australia, New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and South Australia.

Type material examined. Holotype ♂, Western Australia, Yanchep, 32 miles [ca. 50 km] N of Perth, 24.xi.- 2.xii.1935, R.E.Turner (B.M.1936-28); NHML.

Other specimens examined. New South Wales: Sydney, Lea (1 ♂, SAM). South Australia: Little Desert, 29.x.1950, F.E. Wilson (1 ♀, SAM).

Notes

Published as part of Malipatil, M. B., Kwak, M. L. & Gunawardene, N., 2016, A revision of the Australian genus Trachylestes with the description of two new species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae), pp. 88-100 in Zootaxa 4105 (1) on page 91, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4105.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/264698

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Reduviidae
Genus
Trachylestes
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Miller
Species
turneri
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Trachylestes turneri Miller, 1958 sec. Malipatil, Kwak & Gunawardene, 2016

References

  • Miller, N. C. E. (1958) Reduviidae (Hemiptera-Heteroptera) from the Oriental and Australian Regions with descriptions of new genera and species. Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaff in Basel, 69, 66 - 89.
  • Malipatil, M. B. (1991) The generic classification of the Australian Harpactorinae (Heteroptera: Reduviidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy, 4, 935 - 971. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1071 / IT 9900935