Strongylovelia

Ye, Zhen, Chen, Pingping & Bu, Wenjun, 2015, A review of the Strongylovelia Esaki, 1924 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae) from China, with descriptions of three new species, Zootaxa 3920 (4), pp. 534-544 : 544

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3920.4.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:08D33EF3-C7A3-4B5E-984D-0D4122497D89

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6098490

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C72E87A7-9364-FFAA-02EB-2D7C2899FC25

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Plazi

scientific name

Strongylovelia
status

 

Key to the species of Strongylovelia View in CoL occurring in China

1. Antennal segment I whitish.—Female: connexiva segments VI–VII with a prominent, posteriorly directed tuft of long bristles ( Figs. 13, 16, 17 View FIGURES 13 – 17 )...................................................................................... 2

- Antennal segment I blackish.—Female: connexiva segments VI–VII without a prominent, posteriorly directed tuft of long bristles, instead with broader tufts of shorter hairs ( Figs. 14, 15 View FIGURES 13 – 17 ).................................................4

2. Female: body length 1.49–1.51; mesonotum with large, band-shaped whitish mark ( Fig. 5 View FIGURES 1 – 5 ). – Male: body length 1.19–1.21; mesonotum with large, broadly band-shaped whitish mark (Fig. 10); abdominal segment VIII and pygophore as illustrated ( Figs. 22 View FIGURES 18 – 22 , 39 View FIGURES 23 – 42 ); apex of blade of paramere pointed ( Fig. 42 View FIGURES 23 – 42 )..................................... S. hainanensis sp. n.

- Female: body length 1.64–1.74; mark on mesonotum not as above. —Male: body length 1.38–1.42; mark on mesonotum not as above.; apex of blade of paramere slightly blunt ( Figs. 26, 38 View FIGURES 23 – 42 ).................................................. 3

3. Female: mesonotum and mesopleura with a large, characteristically shaped whitish mark ( Figs. 1 View FIGURES 1 – 5 , 13 View FIGURES 13 – 17 ); mesopleura with two additional pairs of small whitish spots laterally, one located just dorsally of metacetabula and another on the first abdominal laterotergite ( Fig. 13 View FIGURES 13 – 17 ).—Male: mesonotum with a large, characteristically shaped whitish mark (Fig. 6); abdominal segment VIII and pygophore as illustrated ( Figs. 18 View FIGURES 18 – 22 , 23 View FIGURES 23 – 42 ); paramere relatively broad in lateral view ( Figs. 24, 25 View FIGURES 23 – 42 )......... S. formosa View in CoL

- Female: mesonotum and mesopleura with large, characteristically shaped whitish mark ( Figs. 4 View FIGURES 1 – 5 , 16 View FIGURES 13 – 17 ); mesopleura without two additional pairs of whitish spots laterally.—Male: mesonotum with semicircular-shaped whitish mark (Fig. 9); abdominal segment VIII and pygophore as illustrated ( Figs. 21 View FIGURES 18 – 22 , 35 View FIGURES 23 – 42 ); paramere relatively slender in lateral view ( Figs. 36, 37 View FIGURES 23 – 42 )................................................................................................... S. fasciaria View in CoL sp. n.

4. Mesonotum and metanotum separate; pronotum anteriorly along hind margin of head with a yellowish transverse band which distinctly interrupted medially ( Figs. 2 View FIGURES 1 – 5 , 7).......................................................... S. paitooni View in CoL

- Mesonotum and metanotum fused; pronotum anteriorly along hind margin of head without a yellowish transverse band which distinctly interrupted medially.......................................................... .. S. balteiformis View in CoL sp. n.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Veliidae

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