Isometopus (Jehania) slateri (Akingbohungbe)

Krüger, Andreas, 2018, Vehicle-mounted net sampling of airborne micro-Heteroptera in western Liberia, West Africa: 1. Isometopinae (Miridae), Zootaxa 4378 (4), pp. 491-515 : 495

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4378.4.3

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5980033

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A5D976-FFC2-FFDE-6DA1-9786B64BFBC2

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scientific name

Isometopus (Jehania) slateri (Akingbohungbe)
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Isometopus (Jehania) slateri (Akingbohungbe) View in CoL

( Figure 4 View FIGURE 4 )

Magnocellus slateri Akingbohungbe, 1983: 256 View in CoL (Type by original description).

Isometopus (Jehania) slateri (Akingbohungbe) View in CoL ; Akingbohungbe, 1996: 75 (New combination).

To the descriptions of the holo- and paratype males from Ghana ( Akingbohungbe , 1983) may be added the following observations.

Male. Length 2.33 mm (2.25–2.4) (figure 4 A). Maximum width across hemelytra 1.33 (1.3–1.38). Head (figures 4B–D) in front 1.49x (1.39–1.52) as broad as high; width 0.64 (0.62–0.66), height 0.43 (0.42–0.46), dorsal length 0.15 (0.14–0.16). Second antennal segment 0.45 (0.42–0.5). Rostrum exceeding hind coxae towards first sternite. Frons punctate with irregular transverse impressions. Lateral pronotal margins with narrow carina, most of which is concolorous with pronotal disk.

Genitalia (figures 4E–F): right paramere similar to holotype; left paramere distinctly bent beyond median knob; everted endosoma relatively short, minutely echinulated.

Material examined. 6♂, Liberia: Bong county, trips to/from: LRU—Airfield—Dam 12— Fahn Gbolo , approximately N06°47’ W10°20’, 27.iii–9.vi 1989 (leg. Garms). GoogleMaps

Remarks. Regardless of the deviation of several characters from the original description of I. slateri (Akingbohungbe, 1983) the present specimens are treated as con-specific, though geographical variants. The original description was based on only two males, but in a later amendment (Akingbohungbe, 1996), after describing a female series, it was stated that “this is a considerably variable species…”.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Miridae

Genus

Isometopus

Loc

Isometopus (Jehania) slateri (Akingbohungbe)

Krüger, Andreas 2018
2018
Loc

Magnocellus slateri

Akingbohungbe 1983: 256
1983
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