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Dextritubus acucullatus Hill, 2015, sp. n.

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Dextritubus acucullatus sp. n.

(Figs 7–9, dimensions in Table 1)

Type material. Holotype: elytrous male, SEQ, Keysland, 26° 12’S 151° 44’E, 5 Dec 1994 – 26 Jan 1995, G. Monteith, intercept trap, open forest, HILL 00047, T 228950 in QM on 7 slides.

Description. Male brown; ratio lengths pronotal collar to entire pronotum 0.17; frons with pore level with frons and not located on a salient hood, with three transverse carinae below pore (Fig. 8C); T8 with right spiracle at apex of tubular process arising from small sclerite that is incompletely divided from main disc; T8 with left spiracle at apex of broad, rounded posterodorsal projection (Fig. 9A); vesica apically bifid (Fig. 8F). Female unknown.

Etymology. The specific epithet means ‘not bearing a hood’ alluding to the absence by males of a hood on the frons.

Notes

Published as part of Hill, Lionel, 2015, Three new genera of Schizopteridae from Australia with description of six new species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Schizopteridae), pp. 73-96 in Zootaxa 3990 (1) on pages 84-87, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3990.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/289123

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Biodiversity

Family
Schizopteridae
Genus
Dextritubus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Species
acucullatus
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Dextritubus acucullatus Hill, 2015