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Tridemula metabates Wygodzinsky

Description

Tridemula metabates Wygodzinsky

Figs. 20, 21

Tridemula metabates Wygodzinsky, 1956: 211, figs. 121–132

Material examined. AUSTRALIA: New South Wales: 1 Ψ, near Mangrove Mtn., Hawkesbury District, 33.3o S 151.2o E, 27 August 1956, D. K. McAlpine (AM). Queensland: 1 Ψ, 26°32′S 152°41′E Brooloo SF, S Gympie Coonoon Gibber Ck., rainforest (AM). Victoria: 1 ɗ, Toorloo Arm, Lakes Entrance, 37.9o S 147.9o E, 22 July 1964, D. H. Colless (ANIC).

Diagnosis. Recognized in Australia by the following character states: posterior lobe of the pronotum without medial tubercle on the posterior margin (Fig. 21 C), mostly stramineous laterally below carina; first segment of labium stramineous to milky.

Distribution. New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, and Lord Howe Island (Fig. 20).

Notes

Published as part of Tatarnic, Nikolai J., Wall, Michael A. & Cassis, Gerasimos, 2011, A systematic revision of the Australian ploiarioline thread-legged assassin bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae), pp. 1-30 in Zootaxa 2762 on page 28, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.203726

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Wygodzinsky
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Reduviidae
Genus
Tridemula
Species
metabates
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Wygodzinsky, P. (1956) Synopsis of the Australian Emesinae (Hemiptera: Reduviidae). University of California Publications in Entomology, 11, 193 - 246.