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Idioscopus taiwanus Huang and Maldonado, 1992
Introduction
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Description

Description

Description¢¬General

Color¡G General color brown; eyes green, vertex with a black spot close to each eye; anteclypeus black; postclypeus with a pair of black spots at base in female, absent in male; scutellum with a black spot near each basal angle, area in between black; tegmen brown, costal margin, 4th apical cell and apex of appendix deep brown.
Head¡G Head short, vertex finely striate; distance between ocelli 1.67 times distance from ocellus to eye.
Thorax¡G Scutellum longer than vertex and pronotum together (about 1:0.87).
Tegmina¡G Tegmen with two anteapical cells.

Description¢¬Male

Color¡G Postclypeus without a pair of black spots at base.
Head¡G Median length of vertex 0.22 times interocular width; median length of vertex 0.41 length of pronotum.
Genitalia¡G Pygofer concave dorsally, with a small spine-like projection at ventral two-thirds; plate spatulate, setae on apex of dorsal margin; style curved outwardly, with a rectangular projection at basal fifth for attachment of the connective, with several short setae at apical lateral margin; aedeagus with a pair each of apical long and short processes; connective Y-shape.
Measurements¡G Length of tegmen: 3.1 mm (to apex of abdomen); 3.3 mm (to apex of tegmina).

Description¢¬Female

Color¡G Postclypeus with a pair of black spots at base.
Head and Thorax¡G Median length of vertex 0.23 times interocular width; median length of vertex 0.37 length of pronotum.
Measurements¡G Length of tegmen: 3.3 mm (to apex of abdomen); 3.4 mm (to apex of tegmina).

      
Idioscopus taiwanus Huang and Maldonado, 1992   Idioscopus taiwanus Huang and Maldonado, 1992

      

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