A new species of the genus Stigmatonotum (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Rhyparochromidae) from Japan, with notes on related species from the East Palaearctic and Oriental Regions
Ban Teruaki
Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 63(2): 265-278, 2023
Published online: 27th October 2023
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Abstract: A new seed bug species, Stigmatonotum macronotum sp. nov., collected from
southern Chiba prefecture, central Honshu, Japan is described. It is the seventh
species in the genus Stigmatonotum Lindberg, 1927. Stigmatonotum geniculatum
(Motschulsky, 1863) is recorded from South Korea for the first time.
Illustrations of genital structures of the new species and a key to the species
of Humilocoris Harrington, 1980 and Stigmatonotum from the Palaearctic and
Oriental Regions are provided.
Key words: Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Lygaeoidea, Rhyparochromidae, Myodochini, seed bug, key to species, new species, taxonomy, Japan, Palaearctic Region, Oriental Region