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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Geotomus granulosus, a peculiar sehirine-like new species of the subfamily Cydninae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cydnidae) from Burundi

Jerzy LisBarbara Lis

subject

new speciesGeotomini sensu latoburrower bugsBurundiHemipteraHeteropterataxonomyAfrotropical RegionGeotomusAnimalsAnimal Science and ZoologyCydnidaeAnimal DistributionEcology Evolution Behavior and Systematics

description

Geotomus granulosus sp. n. is described from Burundi, and is the third burrower bug species recorded hitherto from this country. This burrower bug resembles species of two Sehirinae genera, i.e. Ochetostethus Fieber, 1860 and Ochetostethomorpha Schumacher, 1913, in its dorsal body habitus. However, all its crucial diagnostic characters (the body chaetotaxy, the shape of evaporatoria and the peritreme, the meso- and metathoracic wings venation, and the shape of spermatheca) demonstrate it represents the genus Geotomus Mulsant et Rey, 1866 (subfamily Cydninae, tribe Geotomini sensu lato).
  

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5087.3.6