Harpedona sanguinipes Distant, 1909

Yeshwanth, H. M. & Konstantinov, Fedor V., 2021, Review of the plant bug tribe Eccritotarsini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae) of India and Sri Lanka with description of two new genera and six new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 745, pp. 1-69 : 11

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2021.745.1311

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:6C85E664-6DE6-442A-9410-D94254E429F5

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4695075

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/BE301C0D-F86E-FF81-FDBC-8A377209F879

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scientific name

Harpedona sanguinipes Distant, 1909
status

 

Harpedona sanguinipes Distant, 1909 View in CoL

Figs 2C View Fig , 5L–M View Fig , 15 View Fig , 27A–B View Fig

Harpedona sanguinipes Distant, 1909: 441 View in CoL .

Harpedona sanguinipes View in CoL – Distant 1911b: 229 (descr.). — Stonedahl 1988: 28 (redescr., figs 16, 24).

Diagnosis

Recognized by the following characters: dorsum impunctate, brown to dark brown, pronotum and scutellum darker than hemelytron; antennal segments, all femora and bases of tibiae with a distinct reddish tinge, remaining parts of legs yellow ( Fig. 2C View Fig ); head width across eyes 0.78, vertex width 0.46; frons without median sulcus in both sexes; labium surpassing hind coxa; genital capsule with a long, narrow, medially projecting process of right wall, prominent projection of left wall, and large, dorsally directed process of ventral wall ( Fig. 15A–B View Fig ); left paramere strongly twisted at middle, apical process with subapical prong and rounded apex ( Fig. 15C–D View Fig ); right paramere leaf-like ( Fig. 15E–F View Fig ); phallotheca entirely membranous, simple ( Fig. 15G–H View Fig ).

Material examined

Lectotype

INDIA • ♂; Darjeeling, Pussumbing ; 4700 ft a.s.l.; Oct.–Dec. 1906; H.H. Mann leg.; [handwritten label:] ” Harpedona marginata Dist. , type “; NHM.

Other material

INDIA • 3 ♂♂; Meghalaya, Ri-Bhoi ; 25°41ˊ N, 91°55ˊ E; 1031 m.a.s.l; 18 Oct 2019; D.M. Firake leg.; Ex: Colocasia esculenta ; UASB GoogleMaps .

Host

Many specimens sampled in Meghalaya were found breeding on Colocasia sp. ( Araceae ) ( Fig. 27A–B View Fig ).

Distribution

Northeastern India, West Bengal and Meghalaya states.

NHM

United Kingdom, London, The Natural History Museum [formerly British Museum (Natural History)]

UASB

India, Bangalore, Karnataka, University of Agricultural Sciences

UASB

University of Agricultural Sciences

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Miridae

Genus

Harpedona

Loc

Harpedona sanguinipes Distant, 1909

Yeshwanth, H. M. & Konstantinov, Fedor V. 2021
2021
Loc

Harpedona sanguinipes

Stonedahl G. M. 1988: 28
Distant W. L. 1911: 229
1911
Loc

Harpedona sanguinipes

Distant W. L. 1909: 441
1909
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