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. Bonner zoologische Beiträge : Herausgeber: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn. Biology; Zoology. New Oriental Heteroptera 227. Figs 9—11: Scoparipoides yangi gQYi. et spec, now.: 9 — dorsal view, 10 — head (a — additional pair of primary setigerous punctures), 11 — evaporatoria. Scale 1 mm. Pronotum wider than long, laterally with the submarginal row of setigerous punc- tures. Corium reaching 3/4 length of abdomen; membrane reduced and hardly visi- ble. Scutellum almost equal in length to corium, apex acute. Abdomen covered with short, brown hair-like bristles;
. Bonner zoologische Beiträge : Herausgeber: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn. Biology; Zoology. New Oriental Heteroptera 227. Figs 9—11: Scoparipoides yangi gQYi. et spec, now.: 9 — dorsal view, 10 — head (a — additional pair of primary setigerous punctures), 11 — evaporatoria. Scale 1 mm. Pronotum wider than long, laterally with the submarginal row of setigerous punc- tures. Corium reaching 3/4 length of abdomen; membrane reduced and hardly visi- ble. Scutellum almost equal in length to corium, apex acute. Abdomen covered with short, brown hair-like bristles; the pattern of trichobothria as in other members of the subfamily Cydninae. Legs with hind tibiae almost cylin- drical (fig. 16) and the 2nd tarsal segment shortest; fore tibiae somewhat compressed, with a few spines on dorsal margin. Type-species: Geopeltus tuberculotus spQC. now. Distribution: Sri Lanka. Geopeltus tuberculatus spec. nov. (figs 12—17) Diagnosis: This is the only species known to belong to the new genus. Description (female only): Head (fig. 14) black, distinctly punctured on the en- tire surface; clypeus sUgthly shorter than paraclypei and with two apical setigerous punctures; lateral margins with the row of 5 setigerous punctures; eyes large, project- ing beyond lateral margins of head, brown; ocular index about 3,9; ocelli absent; antennae brown, 4-segmented, 2nd segment longest (fig. 15); rostrum brown, reaching anterior margin of hind coxae, 3rd rostral segment longer than 4th. Pronotum (fig. 12) black, wider than long, distinctly punctured, with characte- ristic sculpture — broad and deep furrow close to the posterior margin, and median. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig. Bonn : Das Forschungsinst
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