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Neocentrocnemis Miller 1956

  • 1. Hungarian Natural History Museum, Department of Zoology, H- 1088 Budapest, Baross u. 13, Hungary; e-mail: redei @ nhmus. hu
  • 2. National Chung Hsing University, Department of Entomology, Kuo Kuang Road 250, Taichung 40227, Taiwan; e-mail: jingfu. tsai @ gmail. com

Description

Genus Neocentrocnemis Miller, 1956

Neocentrocnemis Miller, 1956: 245. Type species by original designation: Centrocnemis signoreti Stål, 1863.

References. DISPONS (1965): 92 (key to selected species); HSIAO (1974): 321 (diagnosis, key to species in China and Taiwan); HSIAO & REN (1981): 413 (diagnosis, revision of fauna of China and Taiwan); MALDONADO CAPRILES (1990): 16 (catalogue); PUTSHKOV & PUTSHKOV (1996): 148 (catalogue).

Diagnosis. Diagnosed within Centrocnemidinae by the combination of the following characters: antennal segment I shorter than anteocular part of head; anterior tibia simple, without ventral spur; connexivum armed with long, triangular spines.

Distribution and diversity. The genus currently contains 15 species, occurring in the Oriental Region from India through continental Southeast Asia to the Malay Archipelago. One species occurs in Taiwan.

Notes

Published as part of Rédei, Dávid & Tsai, Jing-Fu, 2011, The assassin bug subfamilies Centrocnemidinae and Holoptilinae in Taiwan (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae), pp. 411-442 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 51 (2) on page 414, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5328439

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Reduviidae
Genus
Neocentrocnemis
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Miller
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Neocentrocnemis Miller, 1956 sec. Rédei & Tsai, 2011

References

  • MILLER N. C. E. 1956: Centrocneminae, a new sub-family of the Reduviidae (Hemiptera-Heteroptera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology 4: 219 - 283.
  • DISPONS P. 1965: Une nouvelle espece de Neocentrocnemis Miller [Het. Reduviidae Centrocneminae]. Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique de France 70: 91 - 94.
  • HSIAO T. Y. 1974: New species and new records of Reduviidae (Hem. - Het.) from China. Acta Entomologica Sinica 17: 318 - 324 (in Chinese, English summary).
  • HSIAO T. Y. & REN S. Z. 1981: Reduviidae. Pp. 390 - 538, plates 55 - 81. In: HSIAO T. Y., REN S. Z., ZHENG L. Y., JING H. L., ZOU H. G. & LIU S. L.: (A handbook for the determination of the Chinese Hemiptera-Heteroptera. Volume II). Science Press, Beijing, iv + 654 pp, 85 plates (in Chinese, English summary).
  • PUTSHKOV P. V. & PUTSHKOV V. G. 1996: Family Reduviidae Latreille, 1807 - assassin-bugs. Pp. 148 - 265. In: AUKEMA B. & RIEGER CH. (eds.): Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region. Volume 2. Cimicomorpha I. The Netherlands Entomological Society, Amsterdam, xiv + 360 pp.