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Ranatra malayana Lundblad 1933

Description

Ranatra malayana group sensu Lansbury, 1972

Diagnosis. Body length: males 26–31, females 30–33; siphon long, ratio of siphon length: body length around 1.0–1.1; vertex in lateral view higher than eye, evenly round, without tubercle; flexor side of fore femur with two teeth at distal 0.4, one much larger than the other, pre-apical teeth absent; metasternum with posterior margin straight or convex; operculum of female at most reaching apex of connexivum; male paramere with pre-apical pointed tooth before hook, apical hook short with blunt tip.

Species included. Ranatra malayana Lundblad, 1933 and R. katsara Nieser, 1997.

Note. For the difference between these two species, see Nieser (1997).

Notes

Published as part of Tran, A. D. & Zettel, H., 2021, Taxonomic review of the Ranatra gracilis group sensu Lansbury, 1972 (Nepomorpha: Nepidae), with descriptions of four new species, pp. 45-70 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 69 on page 47, DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2021-0005, http://zenodo.org/record/5351678

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Nepidae
Genus
Ranatra
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Lundblad
Species
malayana
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ranatra malayana Lundblad, 1933 sec. Tran & Zettel, 2021

References

  • Lansbury I (1972) A review of the Oriental species of Ranatra Fabricius (Hemiptera-Heteroptera: Nepidae). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 124: 287 - 341.
  • Lundblad OM (1933) Zur Kenntniss der aquatilen und semiaquatilen Hemipteren von Sumatra, Java und Bali. Archiv fur Hydrobiologie Supplementum, 12: 1 - 195, 263 - 489.
  • Nieser N (1997) A new species of Ranatra from Thailand (Insecta: Heteroptera: Nepidae). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Series B, 99: 79 - 82.