Geotomus distanti SIGNORET

Lis, J. A., 2000, A review of the Australian species of Geotomus Mulsant et Rey, 1866, with descriptions of three new species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cydnidae), Polish Journal of Entomology 69 (4), No. 4, pp. 411-428 : 415

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scientific name	Geotomus distanti SIGNORET
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Figs. 5-6

Geotomus distanti SIGNORET, 1883a: 58 .

Geotomus distanti: LIS 1995: 143 .

Diagnosis

Body moderately shining, ovate, its length 4.55 mm; head broadly rounded anteriorly ( Fig. 5), dorsal surface of paraclypei densely punctured; clypeus with a pair of subapical setigerous punctures bearing long hair-like setae, each paraclypeus with three primary setigerous punctures bearing hair-like setae and three submarginal hair-like setae ( Fig. 5); eyes moderately large, ocular index about 3.9; pronotum almost entirely densely punctured, pronotal margins with a row of 8-9 submarginal setigerous punctures bearing long hair-like setae; scutellum entirely densely punctured with punctures as large as or slightly larger than those on pronotum; costal margin with three setigerous punctures bearing hair-like setae; propleuron almost impunctate, except for a row of several coarse punctures in propleural depression and a patch of punctures on anterior convexity; mesopleural evaporatorium entire, laterally narrowed and reaching lateral margin of mesopleuron ( Fig. 6).

Type material examined

Australia: lectotype female (designated by LIS, 1996: 216): Austral., coll. Signoret; Distanti, det. Signoret; type, Distanti SIGN., labelled by R.C. Froeschner '59 ( NHMW) .

Distribution

Australia (closer location unknown).

Note

The species is known only from a single female.