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Issue: Vol. 4098 No. 1: 5 Apr. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-04-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4098.1.6
Page range: 145–157
Abstract views: 60
PDF downloaded: 1

Redescription of the genus Wachsiella (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Largidae: Physopeltinae) with description of male and comments on its tribal placement

Department of Entomology, Moravian Museum, Hviezdoslavova 29a, CZ-627 00 Brno – Slatina, Czech Republic.
Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, CZ-611 37 Brno, Czech Republic.
Department of Entomology, National Museum, Cirkusová 1740, CZ-193 00 Prague 9 – Horní Počernice, Czech Republic.
Hemiptera Heteroptera Largidae Physopeltinae Physopeltini morphology systematic placement Indonesia Sulawesi Oriental Region

Abstract

A detailed redescription (including first description of the male sex) of the genus Wachsiella Schmidt, 1931 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Largidae: Physopeltinae) and its single species, Wachsiella horsti Schmidt, 1931, is provided. The systematic placement of the genus is discussed and it is placed in the tribe Physopeltini. Wachsiella horsti is a species endemic to south Sulawesi (Indonesia), known only from specimens collected in 1895–1896 and has never been reported since.

 

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