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Amritodus pistacious Huang and Maldonado, 1992
Introduction
Classification
Distribution
Description

Description

Description¢¬General

Color¡G General color pale yellow, tegmina with deep brown spot and strips, spot near base of 2nd apical cell, stripes along cross veins of costal cell and a shorter stripe within 4th apical cell.
Head¡G Head suboval, vertex with median coronal suture reaching basal two-thirds; ocelli lie at two-fifths base of vertex; ocelli nearer to each other than distance between eyes; the median length of vertex 0.82 times longer than width of anteocular; the median length of vertex 1.17 times longer than pronotum.
Thorax¡G Pronotum narrow, lateral side slightly converging to straight anterior, the length 0.47 times longer than width; scutellum wider 1.64 times wider than length.
Tegmina¡G 1st apical cell 5.2 times longer than widest part; 2nd apical cell rectangular; 3rd apical cell approximate rectangular; 4th apical cell base broad.

Description¢¬Male

Genitalia¡G Pygofer in profile at each caudodorsal angle with two hooks, directed ventrad, with one macrosetae at lateral side; plate thick, bullet-like, 4.85 times longer than wide at middle, with several macrosetae at lateral side; style large, longer than aedeagus, acute and curved at apical portion, strongly finger-shaped laterally produce at apical fourth; aedeagus complex, apex fold up and extend to lateral, with a complex process near apex, the complex process produced at each lateral side, convex at middle, with a trident process at middle, the median one blunt at apex, the lateral two acute at apex.
Measurements¡G Male body length (excluding tegmen): 4.0 mm.

Description¢¬Female

Color¡G Shape and color similar to the original description of the male of Huang (1989a).
Head and Thorax¡G The median length of vertex 0.76 times longer than anterocular width; median length of vertex equal to length of pronotum; median length of vertex 1.11 times longer than scutellum; the length of pronotum 0.55 times longer than width; scutellum 1.28 times wider than length; distance between ocelli 0.86 times longer than interocular space.
Measurements¡G Female body length (excluding tegmen): 5.7mm.
Female tegmen length: 4.6mm.

      
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Amritodus pistacious Huang and Maldonado, 1992

      

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