Cheirochela tonkina Polhemus, Polhemus & Sites, 2008

Xie, Tong-Yin & Liu, Guo-Qing, 2015, The creeping water bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Naucoridae) of China, with description of a new species, Zootaxa 3911 (4), pp. 571-580 : 578

Cheirochela tonkina Polhemus, Polhemus & Sites, 2008

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Cheirochela tonkina Polhemus, Polhemus & Sites, 2008: 263 .

Diagnosis. Macropterous forms. Body size large, form elongate ovate ( Fig. 2 ). Macropterous pronotum yellowish brown, mottled with red brown; Scutellum dark yellow, medially orange-brown, surface sculptured, rugose, lateral margins and anterior margin sinuate. Hemelytra dark brown, surface coarsely rugose, bearing fine, pale, granular microstructure, each facet convex, shining, without setae. Parameres bearing a well developed basal lobe, elongate, slightly thicker and weakly bifurcate basally, bearing fringe of long setae on outer margins, apices notched to varying degrees; aedeagus with tip expanded; phallotheca in the form of an elongate triangle. Subgenital plate symmetry.

Brachypterous form. Unknown form China.

Material examined. CHINA: Yunnan Province, 1♂, Laojun Mt. (N22.94°, E104.60°), Zhuang and Miao Autonomous County of Wenshan, alt. 1701m, 23. IV. 1979, Wen-xing ZHANG leg..

Distribution. China (Yunnan Province), Vietnam.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 9. Dorsal habitus photographs of Naucoridae of China. 1: Cheirochela feana Montandon (♂); 2: Cheirochela tonkina Polhemus et al. (♂); 3: Cheirochela grossa sp. nov. (♂); 4: Cheirochela grossa sp. nov. (♀); 5: Gestroiella limnocoroides Montandon (Brachypterous ♂); 6: G. limnocoroides Montandon (Brachypterous ♀); 7: G. limnocoroides Montandon (Macropterous ♂); 8: G. limnocoroides Montandon (Macropterous ♀); 9: Heleocoris breviceps Montandon (♂).