Germalus fuscovittatus Malipatil, 2013

Kóbor, Péter & Kondorosy, Előd, 2022, The big-eyed bug genus Germalus Stål, 1862 in New Guinea (Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea: Geocoridae), Zootaxa 5182 (3), pp. 265-278 : 267

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5182.3.4

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7053039

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scientific name

Germalus fuscovittatus Malipatil, 2013
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( Figs. 1A View FIGURE 1 , 2B–D View FIGURE 2 , 3A View FIGURE 3 , 4 View FIGURE 4 )

Material examined. 1 ♀ ( BMNH): “ PAPUA N.G. / Bulolo / 10. VIII. 1951 / /on Shrub / H. Roberts coll. / C.I.E. A 13485 View Materials // 1560 // Germalus sp. / det. M. R. Wilson 1983; 1 ♀ ( BPBM): NEW GUINEA NE: / Wau 1200 m / 4. X. 1932 // on Sunflower (Helianthus anuus) // W.C. Gagne Collector / BISHOP” ; 1 ♂ ( BPBM): “ NEW GUINEA / Wau , Bishop / Museum, No.37 / Field Station / 15–25 IV. 1965 / leg. J. Balogh & J. Szent-Ivanyi ” .

Diagnosis. Germalus fuscovittatus can be separated from other Germalus species of New Guinea with the combination of following characters: dark spot at humeral angles absent, dorsum with broad, fuscous median band extending from head to apex of abdomen; eyes less stylate than in other New Guinean Germalus species and not projected; punctuation of claval commissure missing, punctuation of M-R complete. Dorsal supporting process of peritreme short, reversing ( Fig. 3A View FIGURE 3 )

Distribution. Records of G. fuscovittatus is known from northern Queensland, islands of the Torres Strait and New Guinea ( Malipatil & Blackett 2013, present article). Specimens examined in present study were collected near Bulolo and Wau, Papua-New Guinea (fig. 4), habitat: Southeastern Papuan rain forests.

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Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

BPBM

Bishop Museum

NEW

University of Newcastle

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Geocoridae

Genus

Germalus

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