Macroscytus celebensis BREDDIN

Lis, J. A., 2000, A revision of the burrower-bug genus Macroscytus Fieber, 1860 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cydnidae), Genus (Wrocław) 11 (3), pp. 359-509 : 404-405

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14932706
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D6502E-FF83-0A56-33DE-0CD1AD9D66A3
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scientific name	Macroscytus celebensis BREDDIN
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(Figs 99)

Macroscytus celebensis BREDDIN, 1906: 36 ; BERGROTH 1908: 149; LIS 1991b: 307, 1994a: 217.

DESCRIPTION

Body 8.059.80 mm in length, 4.755.25 mm in width, black or blackish brown, except broad transverse yellowish brown band at posterior margin of pronotum (Fig. 99) and pale brown corium.

Head dorsally impunctate; clypeus without a pair of subapical setigerous punctures; each paraclypeus submarginally with a single preocular setigerous puncture; ocular index 3.153.52; interocellar index 3.34.2; length of antennal segments (in mm): 0.480.49: 0.550.56: 0.660.67: 0.810.86: 0.980.99.

Lateral parts of pronotum somewhat flattened (Fig. 99); transverse discal impression behind calli absent; lateral margins with 3 submarginal setigerous punctures; anterior part of a disc with numerous small punctures forming an arcuate subapical transverse band, and irregular patch on either side; posterior half with a transverse broad band of small punctures not reaching the posterior margin. Propleuron with numerous small punctures on anterior convexity, depression with crowded coarse punctures which become finer and sparser posteriorly.

Scutellar disc with large coarse punctures.

Clavus with one complete and two partial rows of punctures; mesocorium and exocorium densely punctate; costa somewhat flattened, separated from exocorium only basally, bearing no setigerous punctures.

Hind femora subapically with small tooth.

Abdominal sterna laterally slightly wrinkled, each bearing a patch of punctures posterior and anterior to spiracle.

TYPE DATA

Syntype (s): female (s), South Celebes, Loka (lost or destroyed) . Neotype (present designation): Indonesia, Sulawesi Is, 1 female, XXI 1988, S. Nagai ( NSMT) .

MATERIAL EXAMINED

Neotype, and 2 other specimens: Indonesia: Sulawesi Utara, DumogaBone National Park, Poniki trail, 1 ex. ( IRSNB) ; North Sulawesi, Dumoga Bone National Park, 1 ex. ( NNML) .

DISTRIBUTION

Indonesia (Sulawesi).

REMARK

Male unknown.