Parealda chrysoptera (Herrich-Schaeffer

Usinger, Robert L., 1946, Hemiptera Heteroptera of Guam, Insects of Guam II, Honolulu, Hawaii: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Bulletin 189, pp. 11-103 : 23

10. Parealda chrysoptera (Herrich-Schaeffer ).

Asopus chrysopterus Herrich-Schaeffer, Wanz. Insekt. 7: 114 a, 115, fig. 781, 1844.

Cantheconidea chrysoptera Schouteden, Gen. Insect. 52: 44, 1907.

Parealda bouvieri Schouteden, Soc. ent. Belg., Ann. 51: 47, 1907. New synonymy.

Parealda bouvieri Schouteden, Gen. Insect. 52: 65, pl. 5, fig. 3 , 1907.

Asopus? chrysopterus Bergroth, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. VIII, 15: 484, 1915.

Two specimens, Guam, Fullaway (1418); TODO one specimen, Guam, 1923, edge of forest, Hornbostel ; one specimen, Mt. Alifan , April 21, E. H. Bryan, Jr .; one specimen, Inarajan, July 25, on Triphasia, Swezey .

This species was originally described from Guam by Herrich-Schaeffer and is easily recognizable from his colored illustration. As pointed out by Bergroth, Schouteden erroneously placed this in Cantheconidea . Bergroth, in suggesting that chrysopterus "belongs to an undescribed genus," overlooked the fact that Schouteden had already described a new genus and species, Parealda bouvieri , for this same insect and keyed it out in its proper place in his Genera Insectorum. Thus the specific name of Herrich-Schaeffer and the generic name of Schouteden stand, while Schouteden's specific name bouvieri falls as a synonym.

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FIGURE 3.-Mezira marimiensis a, dorsal view of female; b, dorsal view of posterior abdominal segments of male.