Arocatus roeselii ( Schilling, 1829 )

Gao, Cuiqing, Kondorosy, Előd & Bu, Wenjun, 2013, A Review Of The Genus Arocatus From Palaearctic And Oriental Regions (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeidae), Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 61 (2), pp. 687-704 : 697

Arocatus roeselii ( Schilling, 1829)

( Figs. 4G ; 2D–F )

Lygaeus roeselii Schilling, 1829: 60 . Syntype (s): Poland; lost. For detailed synonymy includinginfrasubspecific taxa, see Péricart

(2001: 38).

References. — Stichel, 1957: 82 (keyed, redescription, figures, host plant, distribution, interspecific variability); Stichel, 1959: 314 (listed); Slater, 1964a: 25 (catalogue); Putshkov, 1969: 75 (redescription, habitus, larva, distribution, habitat, biology); Misja, 1973: 146 ( Albania record); Péricart, 1999a: 167 (redescription, intraspecific variability, larva, biology, distribution); Friess, 2000: 68 (host plant); Péricart, 2001: 38 (catalogue); Protić, 2001: 23 ( Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia and Macedonia records); Bianchi & Štepanovičová, 2003: 75 (distribution); Aukema et al., 2013: 354 (catalogue).

Diagnosis. — Dorsum of body with very short, decumbent hairs. Body red with head, antennae, scutellum and legs black. Posterior lobe of pronotum with large black M-shaped spot. Corium with black median spot, apical half red. Majority of thoracal sterna, round sublateral spots on abdominal sterna black. Connexivum red. Hemelytral membrane translucent, dark brown.

Material examined. — AUSTRIA: 1 male, Wien, 17 Dec. [18]83 ( HNHM) ; CROATIA: 1 male, Plavisevica , on Alnus , coll. Ujhelyi, 1909 ( HNHM) ; 1 male, Zagreb, 21 Feb.1900, coll. Langhoffer ( HNHM) ; HUNGARY: 2 males, 1 female, Kecskemét, coll. G. Horváth, 1 Sep.1923 ( HNHM) ; 1 female, Budapest, Városliget , coll. Csiki, 10 Mar.1894 ( HNHM) ; 1 female, Magyaróvár , coll. Révy, 20 Nov.1938 ( HNHM) ; 1 male, Pinnye , coll. Streda, Mar.1921 ( HNHM) ; ITALY / SLOVENIA: 1 female, Görz [= Gorizia], coll. Hensch ( HNHM) ; RUSSIA: Daghestan: 1 male, Caucasus, Derbent ( HNHM) .

Host plants. — Reported on Alnus incana , Alnus glutinosa and plane trees ( Platanus sp. ) ( Friess, 2000; Nau & Straw, 2007; Rieger, 2008).

Distribution. — Asia: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Syria, Turkey; Africa: Algeria, Tunisia; Europe: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia (Central European Territory, North European Territory, South European Territory), Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine ( Misja, 1973; Péricart, 2001; Protić, 2001; Aukema et al., 2013).

Comment. — For discussion concerning species trenning of longiceps and roeselii see discussion under A. longiceps .

Figures

Fig. 4. Arocatus spp., dorsal, ventral or lateral view. A, B, A. pilosulus, one of the syntypes; C, A. pilosulus; D, E, A. pseudosericans, new species, holotype; F, A. pseudosericans, new species; G, A. roeselii; H, A. rufipes; I, A. suboeneus. Scale bars = 5.0 mm.

Fig. 2. A–C, A. longiceps. A, pygophore in posterodorsal view; B, right paramere in ventral view; C, right paramere in dorsal view. D–F, A. roeselii. D, pygophore in posterodorsal view; E, right paramere in vental view; F, right paramere in dorsal view. Scale bars = 0.5 mm (A, D), 0.2 mm (B, C, E, F).