Hypogeocoris alluaudi (Montadon, 1908)

Tang, Jin, Zhang, Gongaote, Guo, Junqi, Luo, Lingxuan, Jiang, Jiamei & Pan, Hongbo, 2023, Big-Eyed Bugs Of The Malagasy Region (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea: Geocoridae), Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 69 (3), pp. 247-264 : 259

Hypogeocoris alluaudi (Montadon, 1908)

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Material studied: 1 f, MFNB: “ Madagaskar / Schaufuss // Geocoris cf. [?] mauritii / Stål [labels handwritten] // Museum für / Naturkunde Berlin”; 1 f, NHMW: “Sikora / Madagasc. // 67 [label handwritten]; 1f, 1m, NHMW: “Mdgk, Sikora / Ampasimena”.

Diagnosis. Colouration mostly dark brown or black. Antennomere I and base of antennomere II dark brown, antennomeres III and IV dark ochraceous. Legs pale brown. Integument of dorsum shiny without conspicuous pubescence. Punctuation of pronotum and scutellum coarse and sparse. Brachypterous species; clavus and corium distinguished by lines of punctures along the claval fold, membrane reduced to flaps, not reaching genital plate. Peritreme vesiculiform auricle with anterior margin of terminal lobe slightly indented.

Distribution. The species is known to be endemic to Madagascar ( SLATER 1964, present study).

Figures

Figs 15–20. Geocorine true bugs of the Malagasy region (dorsal habitus): 15 = Geocoris pallidipennis mauritii Stål, 1854 (male, MNHN); 16 = Germalus banari Kondorosy et Kóbor, 2016 (paratype, male, MNHN); 17 = Germalus benyovszkyi Kondorosy et Kóbor, 2016 (holotype, male, MNHN); 18 = Germalus kinbergi Stål, 1860 (lectotype, female, NHRS); 19 = Hypogeocoris alluaudi (Montandon, 1908) (male, MNHN); 20 = Hypogeocoris violaceus (Signoret, 1881)