Bittacus geniculatus Erichson, 1848

Machado, Renato Jose Pires, Mendes, Diego Matheus De Mello & Rafael, José Albertino, 2018, The genus Bittacus Latreille (Insecta: Mecoptera) in Brazil: key to species, distribution maps, new synonym, and three new species, Zootaxa 4526 (3), pp. 303-330 : 318

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4526.3.2

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5977924

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Bittacus geniculatus Erichson, 1848
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Bittacus geniculatus Erichson, 1848 View in CoL

( Figs. 1d View FIGURE 1 , 8l View FIGURE 8 )

Bittacus geniculatus: Erichson, 1848:586 View in CoL ; Esben-Petersen, 1921:150, 1927:13; Penny & Byers, 1979b:368; Willmann, 1983:55; Machado et al., 2009:36; Machado, 2018. Thyridates geniculatus: Collucci & Amorim, 2000:2 .

Holotype male: ZMHB (high resolution images examined). Species known from Guyana and Brazil (not possible to determine the state).

Bittacus geniculatus View in CoL is a unique species, and rarely collected. It is known only by the male holotype from Guyana and another specimen from Brazil, reported by Esben-Petersen (1927) and held in the Helsinki museum. This specimen is likely from one of the Amazonian Brazilian states. Willmann (1983) did not include B. geniculatus View in CoL in Thyridates View in CoL , mainly because the first fork of Rs in the forewing does not form a right angle. However, the species was transferred to Thyridates View in CoL by Collucci & Amorim (2000), who includes it in the “group angrensis View in CoL ”, based on its falcate forewing. Bittacus geniculatus View in CoL , can be easily distinguished from the remaining species based on its extremely long pterostigma, Rs 1+2 not forking, and by the elongated male epandrium.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Mecoptera

Family

Bittacidae

Genus

Bittacus

Loc

Bittacus geniculatus Erichson, 1848

Machado, Renato Jose Pires, Mendes, Diego Matheus De Mello & Rafael, José Albertino 2018
2018
Loc

Bittacus geniculatus: Erichson, 1848 :586

Machado, R. J. P. & Godoi, F. S. P. & Rafael, J. A. 2009: 36
Collucci, E. & Amorim, D. S. 2000: 2
Willmann, R. 1983: 55
Penny, N. D. & Byers, G. W. 1979: 368
Esben-Petersen, P. 1921: 150
Erichson, W. F. 1848: 586
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