identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
03CD9F6EFFBC7571D1CBE02B2520FB69.text	03CD9F6EFFBC7571D1CBE02B2520FB69.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Praetextatus DISTANT ALONG WITH ITS 1901	<div><p>Praetextatus Distant</p><p>Praetextatus Distant 1901: 583; 1902: 134; Kirkaldy1909: 208; Hsiao et al. 1977: 100, 155; Ahmad and Afzal 1979: 2; Ahmad and Kamaluddin 1989: 170, 174,180 Praetestatus Gross 1975: 220</p><p>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.</p><p>Female genitalia: Ninth paratergites only slightly passing beyond fused posterior margins of eight paratergites; first gonocoxae overlapping each other, with posterior margins convex.</p><p>Type species:  P. typicus Distant 1901</p><p>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 .</p><p>Key to the species</p><p>1. Body dark brown, much longer (13.0 mm) than  chinensis in length, anteocular region about one third longer than reminder of head, paraclypei distinctly produced in front of clypeus, anterior margin of pronotum boat-shaped, humeral angles round, scutellum with apical process short and broad, membrane of hemelytra hardly reaching posterior margin of abdomen beyond in the species of  Valescus .. .....(Burma:Myanmar and Taiwan)……  P. typicus - Body light coloured, much shorter (9.0-10.5 mm) than  typicus in length, anteocular region equal to remainder of head, paraclypei only slightly produced in front of clypeus, anterior margin of pronotum almost v-shaped, humeral angles subacute, scutellum with apical process much long and narrow, membrane of hemelytra distinctly reaching beyond posterior margin of abdomen…(China: Hainan, Hunan, Sichuan and Zhejiang) ……….…  P. chinensis</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CD9F6EFFBC7571D1CBE02B2520FB69	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Ahmad, Imtiaz;Zahid, Muhammad	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.text	03CD9F6EFFBD7573D188E20825E5FD94.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Praetextatus typicus Distant 1901	<div><p>Praetextatus typicus Distant</p><p>(Figs.1-4)</p><p>Praetextatus typicus Distant 1901: 584; 1902: 134; Kirkaldy 1909: 208; Rider et al. 2002: 144</p><p>Colouration:</p><p>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.</p><p>Head:</p><p>Anteocular region longer than posterior of head including eyes; length of antennal segments I 0.6mm, II 0.9mm, III 1.3mm, IV 1.7mm, V 1.8mm, antennal formula 1&gt;2&gt;3&gt;4&gt;5; labium reaching mesocoxae (Fig. 2); length of anteocular region 1.1mm; length of remainder of head 0.9mm; width of head including eyes 3.1mm.</p><p>Thorax:</p><p>Pronotum distinctly more than 2x broader than its length, anterior margin distinctly wider than head width, lateral margins slightly sinutate, length 2.7mm width 7.2mm; scutellum slightly longer than broad with sub rounded apical lobe, length 4.7mm, width 4.4mm; metathoracic scent ostiole round, auricle thumb-like (Fig. 3); distance base scutellum-apex clavus 3.8mm; apex clavus-apex corium 2.3mm; apex corium-apex abdomen including membrane 2.2mm; apex scutellum- apex abdomen including membrane 3.4mm.</p><p>Abdomen:</p><p>Convex beneath, connexiva distinctly exposed at repose; total length 13.0mm.</p><p>Female genitalia:</p><p>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.</p><p>Material examined:</p><p>Holotype female, Burma, Distant coll., “type” at BMNH, London</p><p>Comparative note:</p><p>P. typicus could easily be separated from  P. chinensis in having much longer body measuring 13.0mm and of dark brown colour in contrast to much shorter body measuring 9.0-10.5mm and body light coloured in  P. chinensis .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CD9F6EFFBD7573D188E20825E5FD94	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Ahmad, Imtiaz;Zahid, Muhammad	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
