Published December 7, 2023 | Version v1
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Nannogermalus Kobor & Kondorosy 2020

  • 1. Plant Protection Institute, HUN-REN Centre for Agricultural Research, 15 Herman Ottó Street, H- 1022 Budapest, Hungary Department of Integrated Plant Protection, Institute of Plant Protection, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences (MATE), 1 Páter Károly. Street, Gödöllő, H- 2100, Hungary

Description

Key to species of Nannogermalus

1. Pronotum with a short, elevated, longitudinal keel separating the callosities (Fig. 11). Posterior margin of abdominal tergites III–IV unarmed.......................................................................................2.

– Pronotum without elevated keel between callosities. Posterior margin of abdominal tergites III–V armed with minute tubercles (Fig. 12)............................................................................................3.

2. Head and pronotum with marmorated pattern dorsally. Trifurcate carina of scutellum interrupted by punctures basally............................................................. Nannogermalus marmoratus Kóbor & Kondorosy, 2020

– Head and pronotum not marmorated; pronotum with brownish longitudinal lines near lateral margin (sometimes inconspicuously faded). Trifurcate carina of scutellum not interrupted basally........................... Nannogermalus webbi sp. nov.

3. Pronotum with a wide, brown longitudinal band medially. Punctation of pronotum posteriad to callosities irregular, relatively sparse.................................................................... Nannogermalus herczeki sp. nov.

– Pronotum with two thin brown longitudinal lines submedially. Punctation of pronotum posteriad to callosities even, dense......................................................................... Nannogermalus pallgergelyi sp. nov.

Notes

Published as part of Kóbor, Péter, 2023, The New Caledonian endemic geocorine bug genus, Nannogermalus is not monotypic anymore (Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea: Geocoridae), pp. 43-54 in Zootaxa 5382 (1) on page 45, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5382.1.7, http://zenodo.org/record/10280272

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Biodiversity

Family
Geocoridae
Genus
Nannogermalus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Kobor & Kondorosy
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Nannogermalus Kobor, 2020 sec. Kóbor, 2023

References

  • Kobor, P. & Kondorosy, E. (2020) Nannogermalus marmoratus: a new endemic big-eyed bug from New Caledonia (Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea: Geocorinae). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 66 (4), 361 - 368. https: // doi. org / 10.17109 / azh. 66.4.361.2020