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Pretarsal structures in the family Cydnidae sensu lato (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomoidea)

Jerzy A. LisDariusz J. Ziaja

subject

biologyPentatomoideaHeteropteraZoologyBiodiversitybiology.organism_classificationHemipteraReduviidaeSensuBotanyAnimal Science and ZoologyTaxonomy (biology)CydnidaeEcology Evolution Behavior and SystematicsTaxonomy

description

New data on the pretarsus in Cydnidae sensu lato are presented; 56 species of 38 genera are studied based on the SEM techniques. Pretarsal structures in Cydnidae s.l. are demonstrated to be not uniform; some are typically pentatomoid, and some are atypical for Pentatomoidea. Structures associated with the unguitractor plate, described for the first time by Weirauch (2005) in Reduviidae, and not reported for Cydnidae s.l. in the past, are described for the first time.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2010-07-22Zootaxa
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2545.1.2