Polauchenia
Description
Key for the species of PoLauchenia, modified from Wygodzinsky (1966)
1. Postocular region of the head with a median spine, besides a pair of lateral spined tubercles...... unicornis Maldonado, 1968
- Postocular region of the head without a median spine, with or without a pair of lateral spined or rounded tubercles........ 2
2. Petiole of pronotum quite longer, at least 1.5 times as long as the fore lobe........................................ 3
- Petiole of pronotum little, if any longer than fore lobe......................................................... 5
3. Petiole of pronotum approximately 1.5 times as long as the fore lobe; length 14 mm............. P. paraprotentor sp. nov.
- Petiole of pronotum at least twice longer than the length of fore lobe; length 15 mm or longer.........................4
4. Length 17.5 mm; females (males unknown) brachypterous, the forewing reaching at about middle of abdomen........................................................................................ marcapata Wygodzinsky, 1966
- Length not more than 15 mm; humeri spined; female slightly brachypterous, forewing reaching far posterior to the middle of abdomen................................................................. protentor McAtee & Malloch, 1925
5. Length 11 mm; postocular region of the head without projections, spines of scutellum and metanotum yellowish........................................................................................ schubarti Wygodzinsky, 1950
- Length 16 mm; postocular region of the head with a pair of spined conical tubercles; spines of scutellum blackish................................................................................. biannulata McAtee & Malloch, 1925
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Reduviidae
- Genus
- Polauchenia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Wygodzinsky
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Polauchenia (Wygodzinsky, 1966) sec. Gil-Santana & Ferreira, 2017
References
- Wygodzinsky, P. W. (1966) A monograph of the Emesinae (Reduviidae, Hemiptera). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 133, 1 - 614.
- McAtee, W. L. & Malloch, J. R. (1925) Revision of the American bugs of the Reduviid Subfamily Ploiariinae. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 67, 1 - 153. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.67 - 2573.1
- Wygodzinsky, P. (1950) Sobre alguns " Emesinae " (Reduviidae, Hemiptera). Revista Brasileira de biologia, 10, 73 - 84.