Bittacus Latreille, 1805

Zhang, Yan-Na, Du, Wei & Hua, Bao-Zhen, 2020, Three new species of the genus Bittacus Latreille, 1805 (Mecoptera: Bittacidae), with a key to the species of Bittacidae in South China, Zootaxa 4718 (3), pp. 381-390 : 382-383

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4718.3.6
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5919216
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scientific name	Bittacus Latreille, 1805
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Bittacus Latreille, 1805 View in CoL

Bittacus Latreille, 1805: 20 View in CoL ; Esben-Petersen, 1921: 117; Carpenter, 1931: 257; Cheng, 1957: 90; Penny & Byers, 1979: 366. Type species: Panorpa italica Müller, 1766 .

Diagnosis. The genus Bittacus is similar to Terrobittacus , but can be differentiated from the latter by the following characters: 1) male epandrial lobe longer than half length of gonocoxite (cf. epandrial lobe distinctly shorter than half length of gonocoxite; 3) tergum X saddle-like (cf. tergum X vestigial or absent); 4) female subgenital plate separated mesally by a membranous area (cf. subgenital plate almost fused mesally).

Bittacus differs from Bicaubittacus by the male gonocoxites lacking paired prolongations distally.