Ploiaria chilensis ( Philippi 1862 )

Tatarnic, Nikolai J. & Cassis, Gerasimos, 2011, The thread-legged bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae) of Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands, Zootaxa 2967, pp. 21-43 : 29

Ploiaria chilensis ( Philippi 1862)

Stenolemus chilensis Philippi 1862: 38 (new species).

Ploiaria chilensis Kuschel 1951: 113 (new combination); Wygodzinsky 1966: 473 (synonymy); Maldonado 1990: 110 (catalogue; synonymy); Cassis & Gross 1995: 293 (catalogue; synonymy).

Emesella dohrni Signoret 1863: 587 (new species); Wygodzinsky 1966: 473 (synonymy).

Ploearia dohrni Stål 1872: 127 (new combination).

Emesodema huttoni Scott 1874: 271 (new species); Wygodzinsky 1966: 473 (synonymy).

Ploearia huttoni Bergroth 1923: 399 (new combination).

Ceratocapsus canariensis Noualhier 1895: 167 (new species); Wygodzinsky 1966: 473 (synonymy).

Ploearia canariensis Lethierry & Severin 1896: 259 (new combination).

Diagnosis. Distinguished from other Australian Ploiaria by the following combination of characters: ventral surface of foretrochanter armed with elongate, setigerous spine, longer spines on base of forefemur emanating from elongate processes, and colouration and male genitalia (see Wygodzinsky 1948: p. 474, Figs. 1–3 ).

Remarks. Ploiaria chilensis is cosmopolitan in distribution, and like P. macrophthalma and Empicoris rubromaculatus , it is thought to have come to Australia by anthropogenic means ( Wygodzinsky 1956). This species was not observed in the present survey.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Lateral photographs of females of Atisne derelictus (above) and Atisne reidi (below).

FIGURE 2. A, Atisne derelictus, head and pronotum. B, Atisne reidi, proximoventral forefemoral process. C – E Atisne derelictus: C, Proximoventral forefemoral process; D, paramere (redrawn from Wygodzinsky 1966: Fig. 20 I); E, aedeagus (redrawn from Wygodzinsky 1966: Fig. 20 J). F – I Emesopsis cirratus: F, Paramere; G, head and pronotum, lateral view; H, hemelytron; I, aedeagus. (Not to scale.)

FIGURE 3. A – D Atisne derelictus, female: A, Head, dorsal view; B, foreleg, lateral view; C, foreleg, medial view; D, female external genitalia, ventral view. E – H Atisne reidi: E, Foreleg, medial view; F, foreclaw; G, apex of female abdomen, dorsal view; H, female external genitalia, lateral view. GN = anterior gonapophysis; GN III = third gonapophysis; ST VIII = gonocoxite.