New Oriental and Australasian taxa of Colobathristidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in the collection of the State Natural History Museum Stuttgart
Hartung Viktor
Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 59(2): 403-422, 2019
Published online: 15th August 2019
Published in print: 31st December 2019
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Abstract: The Colobathristidae are a poorly studied family of Lygaeoidea distributed in
the tropics and subtropics of Australasian, Neotropical, and Oriental
biogeographic regions. PhaenacanthaHorváth, 1904 is the largest genus of the
family, with 33 described species. Here, two new species of Phaenacantha are
described from Borneo (P. grimmae sp. nov. and P. nigrispina sp. nov.) and one
from New Caledonia (P. paveli sp. nov.), all of which represent the first record
of the genus from these islands. Also, a specimen of genus Symphylax Horváth,
1904 from Borneo is described that has strong similarities to S. handschini
Kormilev, 1953 from the same island, but differs from it in some minor features
and is considered a new subspecies, S. handschini kinabaluensis subsp. nov.
Key words: Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Colobathristidae, new subspecies, Phaenacantha, Symphylax, new species, true bugs, Borneo, Indonesia, New Caledonia