Pseudovelia lundbladi ANDERSEN 1983

Hecher, Ch. & Zettel, H., 2006, Review of the genus Pseudovelia HOBERLANDT 1950 (Heteroptera: Veliidae) on the Malay Peninsula, Linzer biologische Beiträge 38 (1), pp. 701-710 : 705

Pseudovelia lundbladi ANDERSEN 1983 ( Figs. 5-8 )

Pseudovelia (s.str.) lundbladi ANDERSEN 1983: 262-264 .

Pseudovelia lundbladi: ANDERSEN et al. 2002: 232 , 247, 248.

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Malaysia: Holotype (apt.) and 1 paratype (apt.), Pahang, Cameron Highlands , 2000 m, 27 Nov. 1979, leg. P. Nielsen ( ZMUC).

D i a g n o s i s: Body length 2.6 (), 3.0 mm (); length of tergites 1-7(8) to width of tergite 4 as 1: 0.3 (), 0.2 (); pronotum length to pronotum width as 0.6-0.7: 1 (,

); length of antenna to body length as 0.6-0.7: 1; relation of antennal segments 1-4 as 1.5-1.6: 1: 1.1-1.2: 1.3-1.5, segment 1> segment 4; width of second tergite to width of head as 0.9-1.0: 1 (,); length of metatarsus to metatibia as 0.5-0.6: 1 (,); length of first metatarsal segment to second as 0.7-0.8: 1 (,); length of grasping comb on male protibia to length of protibia as 0.6: 1; vertex with patch of silvery hairs; eye not pilose; ventral lobe of head not produced caudad; first metatarsal segment of male ( Fig. 7 ) with row of short, erect hairs over entire length; structure of male and female genital segments as shown in Figs. 5-6 and 8 , respectively.

G e n e r a l d i s t r i b u t i o n: Malaysia: Pahang; probably restricted to the mountainous zone of the Cameron Highlands.

Figures

Figs 1-14: (1-4) Pseudovelia hypodonta. (5-8) Pseudovelia lundbladi. (9-14) Pseudovelia yangae sp.n. (1, 5, 9) segment 8 of male, ventral. (2, 6, 10) segment 8 of male, lateral. (3, 7, 11) metatarsus of male. (4, 8, 12) end of abdomen of female, lateral. (13) forewing. (14) antenna of male. Fine, not diagnostic pilosity partly omitted. Homologous structures with identical scale as given for P. hypodonta.