Trachylestes aspericollis ( Stål, 1859 ), Stal, 1859

Malipatil, M. B., Kwak, M. L. & Gunawardene, N., 2016, A revision of the Australian genus Trachylestes with the description of two new species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae), Zootaxa 4105 (1), pp. 88-100 : 89-91

Trachylestes aspericollis ( Stål, 1859)

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Reduvius aspericollis Stål, 1859: 363 .

Penthikocleptes australicus Miller, 1958: 77 . Synonymised by Malipatil (1991: 938). Trachylestes aspericollis: Malipatil, 1991: 938 .

Description. The species has been adequately described and illustrated (as Penthikocleptes australicus ) by Miller (1958), the followings are additions:

Measurements (of holotype male of the junior synonym P. australicus first, followed by of a non-type female): Body length 8.9, 8.2; maximum width 2.52, 2.17. Length of head 1.88, 1.74, width across eyes 1.04, 1.08, interocular space 0.56, 0.52, interocellar space 0.40, 0.35, eye-ocellar space 0.12, 0.11, eye length 0.48, 0.46, eye width 0.26, 0.28. Lengths of antennal segments: [all segments missing in holotype], I, 2.19, II, 1.23, III, 0.87, IV, 1.76. Pronotum median length 1.60, 1.63, width posterior margin 2.00, 1.96. Scutellum length 0.72, 0.83, width 0.96, 1.00. Length hemelytra 5.40, 4.99; length corium 3.42, 3.53; width membrane 1.80, 1.67.

Distribution. Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales.

Type material examined. Reduvius aspericollis : Syntype ♀, “ Typus ”, “Nov. Holl.?Cumming”, “2633”, “ aspericollis Stål ”, “Zool. Mus. Berlin”. Left mid and hind legs, antenna except left basal segment missing; NHMB. Penthikocleptes australicus : Holotype ♂, Cent. Queensland, Carnarvon, Australia, 29.v.1954, T.E. Woodward; NHML.

Additional specimens examined. “Austral. Coll. Signoret”, “ aspericollis det Stål”, “ Gminatus ”, “Coll. Nat.Mus.Wien”; antennae except basal segment of right antenna, right fore leg and all tarsi missing; (1 ♀, NHMV). Queensland: Tibrogargan Ck., 4.xii.1964, B. Cantrell (1 ♂, QM); Woolooga, 6.xii.1961, J.W. Turner (1 ♀, QM). New South Wales: Woodenbong, 9.xi.1958, I. Yeo (1 ♂ 1 ♀, QM).

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 2, Trachylestes aspericollis: 1, dorsal view; 2, lateral view.