Sirthenea flavipes (Stål, 1855)

Swanson, Daniel R., 2019, Doomed to a vile lot: new taxa, notes, and an updated generic key for the Old World corsairs (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Peiratinae), Zootaxa 4700 (2), pp. 196-228 : 223

Sirthenea flavipes (Stål, 1855)

( Fig. 37 )

SOUTH VIETNAM: Quang Tin [sic] Province, Chu Lai, 25 km. SE. Tam Ky, June 1969, Ralph J. Gorton, det. D. R. Swanson 2016 [1 male] ( MSUC); MALAYSIA: Sarawak, Univ. of Malaysia nr. Kota Samarahan , 21 May 1995, F. W. Stehr, det. D. R. Swanson 2016 [1 female] ( MSUC) [imaged]; PHILIPPINES: Balangbalang, Cabadbaran, Abusan , Mindanao Id., light trap, 6 April 1963, H. M. Cullamar, det. D. R. Swanson 2017 [1 male] ( UMMZ) ; “Philippines?”, 19 April 1910, E. M. Ledyard, det. L. Willemse 1982 [1 female] ( UMMZ) .

Note: The male from Balangbalang has the dorsal cuticle of the pronotum highly melanized, appearing almost black.

Figures

FIGURES 33–37. Dorsal habitus of various Peiratinae, continued: (33) Microcleptocoris depressus, adult male; (34) Peirates aurigans, adult female; (35) Peirates collarti, adult male; (36) Peirates quadrinotatus, adult male; (37) Sirthenea flavipes, adult female. Scale bar =2 mm.