Acesines breviceps Stal , 1876

Salini, Santhamma, Gracy, R. G., Akoijam, Romila, Rabbani, Mehaboob K., David, K. Jacob & Roca-Cusachs, Marcos, 2023, Revision of Acesines Stal and Dunnius Distant, resurrection of Mycterizon Breddin (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Pentatomidae, Pentatominae), and description of a new species from India, ZooKeys 1148, pp. 79-117 : 79

Acesines breviceps Stal, 1876

Figs 26-29

Acesines breviceps Stål, 1876: 94-95 (original description). Holotype: ♀, India Orientalis, deposited at the Swedish Museum of Natural History (SMNH).

Acesines breviceps : Atkinson (1888): 132 (redescription); Lethierry and Severin (1893): 171 (catalogue); Distant (1902): 231, fig. 144 (redescription; figures of habitat in dorsal view, and mesothorax, metathorax and abdomen in ventral view; distribution); Kirkaldy (1909): 127 (catalogue); Hasegawa (1962): 8-9, pl.1, fig. 3 (record, specimen label details).

Note.

This species is likely to be conspecific with A. bambusana because of the similarity in external colouration and structural morphology. The differences (punctures on scutellum, colouration of outer margin of abdominal venter, small spinous projection at the caudal margin of laterotergite VIII) observed upon comparison of images of the female holotype specimen of A. breviceps (the photographs were provided by courtesy of Gunvi Lindberg) with female specimens of A. bambusana , were found to be insignificant. However, the synonymy of these species cannot be confirmed without the examination of male genitalia structures of both species. Unfortunately, there are no male specimens available for study in the case of A. breviceps .

Figures

Figures 26 - 29. Acesines breviceps Stal 26 habitus (dorsal) 27 habitus (ventral) 28 label data of A. breviceps typus 29 close up of posterior end of ventral side of female abdomen (terminalia). Photographed by Gunvi Lindberg (2021 Naturhistoriska riksmuseet). Original photograph cropped. Made available by the Swedish Museum of Natural History under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License, CC-BY 4.0 (https: // creativecommons. org / licenses / by / 4.0 / legalcode).