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Rhytidoporus indentatus Uhler 1877

Description

Rhytidoporus indentatus Uhler, 1877, first territory record

(Figs. 7–8, 12)

Diagnostic characters: Body from brown to almost black, 3.80–5.80 mm in length. Head impunctate or almost impunctate; clypeus subapically with a pair of setigerous punctures bearing peglike setae (Figs. 7–8); each paraclypeus with a row of about 10 submarginal setigerous punctures bearing hairlike and peglike setae (Figs. 7–8); 2nd antennal segment as long as or shorter than 3rd segment. Pronotum weakly punctured, very often almost impunctate, each lateral margin with 5–6 submarginal setigerous punctures. Each costal margin with 1–3 setigerous punctures. Evaporative areas on meso- and metapleuron large, bearing a transverse polished band toward apex of peritreme (Fig. 12). Paramere described in Froeschner (1960).

Material examined: Guam: Mangilao Village, University of Guam campus, Marine Biol. Lab. Area, at lights, N13o25.714’ E144o47.913’, 16 males 22 females 17 May 2004, 16 males 13 females 18 May 2004, 18 males 12 females 19 May 2004, R.S. Zack collr.

Distribution: USA (including Hawaii), Haiti, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, St Croix Island.

Notes

Published as part of Lis, Jerzy A. & Zack, Richard S., 2010, A review of burrower bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cydnidae sensu lato) of Guam, pp. 57-64 in Zootaxa 2523 on pages 61-62, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.294105

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Cydnidae
Genus
Rhytidoporus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Uhler
Species
indentatus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Rhytidoporus indentatus Uhler, 1877 sec. Lis & Zack, 2010

References

  • Froeschner, R. C. (1960) Cydnidae of the Western Hemisphere. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 111, 337 - 680.