taxonID	type	description	language	source
03CD9F6EFFBC7571D1CBE02B2520FB69.taxon	description	Body oblongate; head broader than long, lateral margins laminate, angulate in front of eyes, distinctly sinuate, paraclypei longer than clypeus but not distinctly enclosing the latter; antennae with basal segment shorter than head apex, second segment shorter than third, fifth longest; labium distinctly reaching mesocoxae; pronotum with lateral margins sub straight, anterior angles sub acute, anterior margin medially concave or v-shaped, humeral angles prominent, posterior margin medially weakly or distinctly concave; scutellum with apical margin sub rounded, much shorter than corium; meso- and metasterna medially obscurely furrowed; metathoracic scent auricle transversely thumb-like, limited to one third distance of well developed evaporatoria; abdomen somewhat ovate, with sides more or less parallel, posteriorly narrowed and somewhat rounded. Female genitalia: Ninth paratergites only slightly passing beyond fused posterior margins of eight paratergites; first gonocoxae overlapping each other, with posterior margins convex.	en	Ahmad, Imtiaz, Zahid, Muhammad (2006): Redescription Of The Caystrine Genus Praetextatus Distant Along With Its Type Species P. Typicus Distant (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) With Referance To Their Unknown Characters Of Metathoracic Scent Auricle And Genitalia And Key To Its Known Species And Their Relationships. Int. J. Biol. Biotech. 3, No. 1: 1-5
03CD9F6EFFBC7571D1CBE02B2520FB69.taxon	discussion	Comparative note: Praetextatus is most closely related to valescus in having metathoracic scent auricles somewhat reduced but can easily be separated from the same in having posterior margin of ninth paratergites only slightly passing beyond fused posterior margins of eighth paratergites in contrast to well passing beyond in the species of Valescus.	en	Ahmad, Imtiaz, Zahid, Muhammad (2006): Redescription Of The Caystrine Genus Praetextatus Distant Along With Its Type Species P. Typicus Distant (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) With Referance To Their Unknown Characters Of Metathoracic Scent Auricle And Genitalia And Key To Its Known Species And Their Relationships. Int. J. Biol. Biotech. 3, No. 1: 1-5
03CD9F6EFFBD7573D188E20825E5FD94.taxon	description	(Figs. 1 - 4)	en	Ahmad, Imtiaz, Zahid, Muhammad (2006): Redescription Of The Caystrine Genus Praetextatus Distant Along With Its Type Species P. Typicus Distant (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) With Referance To Their Unknown Characters Of Metathoracic Scent Auricle And Genitalia And Key To Its Known Species And Their Relationships. Int. J. Biol. Biotech. 3, No. 1: 1-5
03CD9F6EFFBD7573D188E20825E5FD94.taxon	description	Colouration: Body above with legs and labium dark brown, of chocolate colour; corium a little paler in hue, membrane fuliginous; antennae piceous with apical segment stramineous; body beneath black; pronotum with two small central pale spots on anterior disc; dorsally thickly punctuate; scutellum transversely wrinkled. Head: Anteocular region longer than posterior of head including eyes; length of antennal segments I 0.6 mm, II 0.9 mm, III 1.3 mm, IV 1.7 mm, V 1.8 mm, antennal formula 1> 2> 3> 4> 5; labium reaching mesocoxae (Fig. 2); length of anteocular region 1.1 mm; length of remainder of head 0.9 mm; width of head including eyes 3.1 mm. Thorax: Pronotum distinctly more than 2 x broader than its length, anterior margin distinctly wider than head width, lateral margins slightly sinutate, length 2.7 mm width 7.2 mm; scutellum slightly longer than broad with sub rounded apical lobe, length 4.7 mm, width 4.4 mm; metathoracic scent ostiole round, auricle thumb-like (Fig. 3); distance base scutellum-apex clavus 3.8 mm; apex clavus-apex corium 2.3 mm; apex corium-apex abdomen including membrane 2.2 mm; apex scutellum- apex abdomen including membrane 3.4 mm. Abdomen: Convex beneath, connexiva distinctly exposed at repose; total length 13.0 mm. Female genitalia: Posterior margin of 7 th abdominal sternum concave laterally, medially weakly convex; posterior margin of first gonocoxae convex, overlapping each other; 9 th paratergites with lateral margin distinctly sinuate and passing beyond posterior margin of fused 8 th paratergites; posterior margin of proctiger weakly concave.	en	Ahmad, Imtiaz, Zahid, Muhammad (2006): Redescription Of The Caystrine Genus Praetextatus Distant Along With Its Type Species P. Typicus Distant (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) With Referance To Their Unknown Characters Of Metathoracic Scent Auricle And Genitalia And Key To Its Known Species And Their Relationships. Int. J. Biol. Biotech. 3, No. 1: 1-5
03CD9F6EFFBD7573D188E20825E5FD94.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined: Holotype female, Burma, Distant coll., “ type ” at BMNH, London	en	Ahmad, Imtiaz, Zahid, Muhammad (2006): Redescription Of The Caystrine Genus Praetextatus Distant Along With Its Type Species P. Typicus Distant (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) With Referance To Their Unknown Characters Of Metathoracic Scent Auricle And Genitalia And Key To Its Known Species And Their Relationships. Int. J. Biol. Biotech. 3, No. 1: 1-5
03CD9F6EFFBD7573D188E20825E5FD94.taxon	discussion	Comparative note: P. typicus could easily be separated from P. chinensis in having much longer body measuring 13.0 mm and of dark brown colour in contrast to much shorter body measuring 9.0 - 10.5 mm and body light coloured in P. chinensis.	en	Ahmad, Imtiaz, Zahid, Muhammad (2006): Redescription Of The Caystrine Genus Praetextatus Distant Along With Its Type Species P. Typicus Distant (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) With Referance To Their Unknown Characters Of Metathoracic Scent Auricle And Genitalia And Key To Its Known Species And Their Relationships. Int. J. Biol. Biotech. 3, No. 1: 1-5
