Ranatra libera Zettel, 1999

Tran, A. D. & Zettel, H., 2021, Taxonomy of the Ranatra biroi group sensu Lansbury, 1972 (Nepomorpha: Nepidae), with descriptions of two new species, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 69, pp. 507-521 : 519

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Ranatra libera Zettel, 1999 View in CoL

Ranatra libera Zettel, 1999: 427–428 View in CoL , 430 (type locality: Bago Division , Myanmar).

Type material examined. Holotype (male) and paratypes (3 females), “ BURMA: Bago Div. / Bago Yoma, Sein Yai For. / Camp, 1700m, 29.10.1998, l. Schillhammer (36)” ( NHMW).

Additional material. THAILAND: 2 males, Salween Basin, coll. S. H. Tan & N. Sivasothi, 19 March 1996, TG1 ( ZRC) .

Diagnosis. Body length: males 26.0, females 27.0–28.0; siphon length ca. 0.95–1.05× body length; lorum higher than clypeus; vertex higher than eye, without tubercle; eye width ca. 1.2× interocular width; space between middle coxae narrower than space between hind coxae; posterior margin of metasternum convex; hind femur, when folded back parallel to body, slightly surpassing apex of abdomen (in both sexes); paramere relatively broad, apical hook slender, strongly recurved at base, gap between hook and main part of paramere very narrow, tip of hook narrow.

Distribution. Myanmar, Thailand ( Zettel, 1999; Polhemus & Polhemus, 2012; Tran & Nguyen, 2016).

References

Polhemus DA & Polhemus JT (2012) Notes on Ranatra (Heteroptera: Nepidae) from Burma and the Andaman Islands, with description of a new species. Entomologica Americana, 118 (1): 242 - 251.

Tran AD & Nguyen VV (2016) Notes on the subfamily Ranatrinae (Hemiptera: Nepidae) from Vietnam, with two new species of Ranatra Fabricius, 1790. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology, 19 (2): 515 - 523.

Zettel H (1999) Ranatra libera sp. n. (Heteroptera: Nepidae) from Burma. Linzer biologische Beitrage, 31 (1): 427 - 430.