Cardiastethus fulvescens (Walker)

Usinger, Robert L., 1946, Hemiptera Heteroptera of Guam, Insects of Guam II, Honolulu, Hawaii: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Bulletin 189, pp. 11-103 : 55

50. Cardiastethus fulvescens (Walker) .

Xylocoris fulvescens Walker, Cat. Heteropt. Brit. Mus. 5: 160, 1872.

Four specimens, Machanao, June 4 ; one specimen, April 30, Usinger ; one specimen, Piti, Oct. 9, on dead orange twigs, Swezey .

These specimens and a series from Hawaii agree fairly well with Walker's original description and with subsequent descriptions by Distant ( Amphiareus fulvescens, Fauna Brit. India, Rhynch. 3: 4, fig. 3 , 1906) and Poppius [Acta Soc. Sci. Fennicae 37(9): 19, 1909] but the second antennal segment is scarcely longerthan the head width including eyes and the hind margin of the pronotum is more than twice as wide as the front margin. Specimens from Guam and Hawaii should be compared with Walker's type in the British Museum (Natural History) for positive identification. C. fulvescens has been recorded from Ceylon, Burma, Malacca, Singapore, Sumatra, Celebes, and New Guinea.

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