Cottothucha

Runagall-Mcnaull, Aidan & Cassis, Gerasimos, 2013, Systematics of the lace bug genus Cottothucha Drake and Poor (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae) with description of the first Australian species and its exaggerated nymph, Zootaxa 3640 (3), pp. 395-408 : 400

Key to species of Cottothucha

1 Pronotal cyst areolae irregularly arranged, small ( Fig. 2 d), vestigial paranota ( Fig. 2 c)...................... .... C. minor

- Pronotal cyst areolae arranged either side of a prominent medial vein ( Fig. 2 b, f)................................... 2

2 Paranota biseriate ( Fig. 2 e), head, thorax, abdomen mostly dark ( Fig. 4 )................................. C. oceanae

- Paranota uniseriate ( Fig. 2 a), head thorax, abdomen mostly pale ( Fig. 4 )............................. C. kalathis , n.sp.

Figures

FIGURE 2. Pronotal structure comparison of Cottothucha species. a: C. kalathis, body, lateral view (50 μm); b: C. kalathis, pronotal cyst, dorsal view (50 μm); c: C. minor, body, lateral view (50 μm); d: C. minor, pronotal cyst, view dorsal (50 μm); e: C. oceanae, body, lateral view (100 μm); f: C. oceanae, pronotal cyst, dorsal view (100 μm).

FIGURE 4. Habitus of Cottothucha species: C. kalathis n. sp., C. minor, C. oceanae. Scale = 1 mm.