Lopidolon sordidus Poppius, 1911

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Lopidolon sordidus Poppius, 1911

Fig. 6G–J

Lopidolon sordidus Poppius, 1911: 7 .

Diagnosis

Distinguished by the following characters: coloration contrastingly orange and brown; head with largely darkened frons and black clypeus; antennal segment I black, 0.7× as long as vertex width; segment II black, slightly longer than head width; pronotum with two wide, longitudinal, dark brown stripes running from collar to posterior margin of disc, remainder of pronotum including posterior angles orange

( Fig. 6G ); propleura with a brown longitudinal stripe ( Fig. 6I ); clavus and endocorium almost entirely dark brown with orange bases, exocorium orange, apically darkened; tibiae uniformly orange-brown.

Material examined

Holotype

SRI LANKA • ♀; Ceylon; 1902; L. Biro leg.; HNHM. [Physical specimen not seen; high quality pictures examined.]

Distribution

Central Sri Lanka. According to the original description ( Poppius 1911), the holotype specimen was collected in Pattipola at an altitude of 2000 m, on February 22, 1902.

Remarks

Refer to Remarks section of L. dandeliensis sp. nov. for discussion on distinctions between Lopidolon spp.

Figures

Fig. 6. Dorsal view and label data of type specimens. A–C. Jessopocoris scutellatus Carvalho, 1981, ♀, holotype, AMNH_PBI 00340984, BMNH(E) 1633131, NHM. D–F. Lopidolon pallescens Poppius, 1911, ♀, holotype, FMNH, currently retained at AMNH. G–J. Loidolon sordidus Poppius, 1911, ♀, holotype, HNHM.