Kanigara Distant, 1906

Ban, Teruaki, 2022, ThegenusKanigara Distant (Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea: Rhyparochromidae) from Malay Peninsula and Thailand, with description of a new species, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 70, pp. 22-29 : 23

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.26107/RBZ-2022-0002
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7171020
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scientific name	Kanigara Distant, 1906
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Genus Kanigara Distant, 1906 View in CoL

Kanigara Distant, 1906: 414 View in CoL (new genus). Type species by original monotypy: Kanigara flavomarginata Distant, 1906 View in CoL . Distant, 1910: 66 (description); Scudder, 1957: 154 (Notes); Scudder, 1962: 768 (transfer K. clypeata Distant, 1904 View in CoL from Gonatas View in CoL ); Slater, 1964: 941 (catalogue, world); Scudder, 1969: 535–540 (fauna of the world); Zheng & Zou, 1981: 135–136, 607 (fauna of China, photo); Chopra & Singal, 1982: 35–39 (redescription of K. flavomarginata View in CoL ); Slater & O’Donnell, 1995: 118–119 (catalogue, world); Péricart, 2001: 130 (catalogue, Palaearctic); Kondorosy, 2006: 485 (key to genera of the Lamproplax View in CoL group); Tomokuni, 2010: 17, 20 (fauna of Borneo); Zheng & Lin, 2013: 175 (fauna of Taiwan, photo).

See http://lygaeoidea.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa. aspx?TaxonNameID=1213122 for Bibliography of the genus.

Diagnosis. This genus is recognised among Drymini genera by the following combination of characters: body elongate, without erect setae; colouration of head, ground colour of pronotum and scutellum reddish brown to black; pronotum without transverse impression; lateral margin of pronotum carinate; each femur slender; femora and tibiae of middle and hind legs with long needle-shaped spines.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hemiptera
Family	Rhyparochromidae