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A new Species of Dasynus, Burm., injurious to Pepper in Java (Heteroptera Coreidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

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Colour.—Head irregularly punctate above, yellowish green, the tylus apically and the disc of vertex tinged with brownish yellow; eyes dark grey, ocelli each surrounded on inner side with narrow red rim; head below and rostrum yellow, rostral commissure and apex brownish black. Antennae dark brown, the first segment pale below, shading to black towards the apex of each segment; extreme base of second and third segments and a broad sub-basal annulation on the fourth segment, pale yellow; apex of fourth segment brown. Pronotum dull yellowish green, becoming deeper posteriorly, regularly covered (except for the calli) with small but deep fuscous punctures, which are more dense along the inside of the reflexed lateral margins; extreme humeral angles brown. Propleura yellowish green, punctate, only the outer punctures fuscous. Scutellum dull yellowish green, deeper towards apex, regularly covered with feebly infuscate deep punctures; extreme apex yellow, impunctate. Meso- and meta-pleura yellow, tinged with green towards the basal lateral angles of the pleura, which are rugosely punctate; sterna impunctate, sparsely covered with short erect pale hairs. Hemielytra more or less regularly punctate in series between the veins, dark brown shading to dull blood-red towards apex of corium; veins (including costal and apical margins of corium) yellow, more or less suffused on the disc of elytra with olive-brown; membrane black, the veins olivebrown. Legs yellow, apices of tarsi and claws brown. Abdomen yellow, sparsely covered with short pale obscure hairs.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1928

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