Fromundus pygmaeus (Dallas, 1851)

Lis, Jerzy A. & Zack, Richard S., 2010, A review of burrower bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cydnidae sensu lato) of Guam, Zootaxa 2523, pp. 57-64 : 60-61

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.294105

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6211213

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scientific name

Fromundus pygmaeus (Dallas, 1851)
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Fromundus pygmaeus (Dallas, 1851)

( Figs. 5–6 View FIGURES 1 – 8 , 11 View FIGURES 9 – 12 )

Diagnostic characters: Body from ochraceous to black, shiny, moderately punctured, 3.2–4.5 mm in length. Submargins of head with hairlike setae (2–5 on either paraclypeus), pegs and peglike setae on paraclypei almost always absent, only sporadically one or two may be present; clypeus without a subapical pair of hairlike setae, only sporadically with a pair of short slender pegs. 2nd antennal segment a little shorter than 3rd segment. Pronotal submargins with hairlike setae (a row of 4–6 setae on either side). Costa with a single setigerous puncture bearing a hairlike seta. Evaporative areas on meso- and metapleuron large, entirely dull ( Fig. 11 View FIGURES 9 – 12 ). Paramere described in Lis (1994).

Material examined: Guam: Mangilao Village, University of Guam campus, Marine Biol. Lab. Area, at lights, N13o25.714’ E144o47.913’, 1 male 1 female 17 May 2004, 1 male 2 females 18 May 2004, 1 male 2 females 19 May 2004, R.S. Zack collr.; Guam, Mangilao, 15-x-71, La Plante, Lot at light, 2 females, A.A. La Plante Collection, Bishop Museum, Acc. #1977.84 (Bishop Museum, Honolulu); Guam, Tamuning, 31-x-71, La Plante, Lot at light, 1 male, A.A. La Plante Collection, Bishop Museum, Acc. #1977.84 (Bishop Museum, Honolulu).

Distribution: Australia, Bismarck Archipelago (Manus, Mussau, New Ireland, New Britain), Burma, Brunei, Cambodia, Chagos Archipelago, China (Sichuan, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Yunnan, Jiangxi, Hubei, Taiwan), Christmas Islands, Cocos-Keeling Islands, Cyprus, Fiji, Hawaii, Hong Kong, India (incl.

Andamans and Nicobars), Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Maldive Islands, Marquesas, Micronesia, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Réunion (Bourbon Island), Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Solomon Islands, Society Islands, Thailand, Vietnam, Yemen.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cydnidae

Genus

Fromundus

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