Opistoplatys Westwood

Ishikawa, Tadashi, Cai, Wanzhi & Tomokuni, Masaaki, 2015, The assassin bug subfamily Tribelocephalinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) from Japan, with descriptions of eight new species in the genera Opistoplatys and Abelocephala, Zootaxa 3936 (2), pp. 151-180 : 154

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3936.2.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:157EDA4A-00A3-469F-8234-7E7175BF13E7

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6112378

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038E87FC-FFDD-1367-FF43-B8CAFF02A324

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scientific name

Opistoplatys Westwood
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Genus Opistoplatys Westwood View in CoL

Opistoplatys Westwood, 1835: 447 View in CoL . Type species: Opistoplatys australasiae Westwood, 1835 View in CoL , by monotypy. Decius Stål, 1860: 263 . Type species: Cimbus terrens Stål, 1854b (= Opistoplatys australasiae Westwood, 1835 View in CoL ), by monotypy. (Synonymized by Stål, 1862: 444.)

Pangeranga Distant, 1906: 365 . Type species: Pangeranga cinnamomea Distnat, 1906 , by original designation. (Synonymized by Bergroth, 1921: 67.)

Opistoplatys View in CoL , the type genus of the tribe Opistoplatyini Bergroth, 1921, is the second largest genus after Tribelocephala Stål, 1854 ( Stål, 1854a) View in CoL , in the subfamily Tribelocephalinae View in CoL and to date includes 32 described species from the Oriental and Australian regions ( Maldonado Capriles 1990, 1996). Diagnostic character states of this genus are: head, thorax, and legs densely covered with long and short setae; head oblong to elongate, longer than pronotum; clypeus not projected anteriad; interocular space narrower than eye in dorsal view; eyes large, calabash-shaped in lateral view; antennal segments I and II densely covered with long setae; antennal flagellum 6- segmented; pronotum trapezoidal, distinctly divided into anterior and posterior lobes; anterior pronotal lobe elevated, longitudinally sulcate medially, and rounded at anterior angles; and scutellum nearly triangular, obtuse at apex.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Reduviidae

Loc

Opistoplatys Westwood

Ishikawa, Tadashi, Cai, Wanzhi & Tomokuni, Masaaki 2015
2015
Loc

Pangeranga

Bergroth 1921: 67
Distant 1906: 365
1906
Loc

Opistoplatys

Stal 1862: 444
Stal 1860: 263
Westwood 1835: 447
1835
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