A systematic revision of the Australian ploiarioline thread-legged assassin bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae)
Author
Tatarnic, Nikolai J.
Author
Wall, Michael A.
Author
Cassis, Gerasimos
text
Zootaxa
2011
2762
1
30
journal article
48020
10.5281/zenodo.203726
1192f29e-067a-4ffe-9804-22e56539111a
1175-5326
203726
Emesopsis imbellis
(Horvath)
Fig. 6
Hadrocranella imbellis
Horvath, 1914
: 648
, fig. 8
Emesopsis imbellis
:
Wygodzinsky, 1966
: 363
, fig. 109
Material examined.
AUSTRALIA
:
Queensland
: 1 ɗ, West Claudie R., Iron Range,
12.45o S
,
143.14o E
,
50 m
,
5–9 December 1985
, G. Monteith, Rainforest, sieved litter.
Diagnosis.
Diagnosed by the following combination of characters: forewing with a distinct dark circular spot near the apex of the discal cell (see
Wygodzinsky 1966
, fig. 109N); M and Cu becoming fused basal of discal cell forming a large triangular basal cell, large subquadrate subbasal cell present, R+M apical of discal cell weakly arched and distinctly branched; postocular region of head with tumid genal area; body length ca.
4.2 mm
.
Distribution.
Northern Queensland and New
Guinea
(
Fig. 6
).
Remarks.
The unique colour pattern of the forewing makes this species easily recognized. Previously known only from New
Guinea
, this species is represented in
Australia
by a single specimen collected from sieved litter by G. Monteith.