Halys Fabricius 1803

Memon, Nasreen, Parveen, Rukhsana, Ahmad, Imtiaz & Shah, Nadir Ali, 2017, Description of Two New Species of Oriental Genus Halys Fabricius (Pentatomoidae, Pentominae, Halyini) from Sindh, Pakistan with a Key of its Nine Asian Species, Pakistan Journal of Zoology 49 (4), pp. 1301-1306 : 1301-1302

Halys Fabricius 1803

( Halys Fabricius, 1803: 180 ; Chopra, 1974: 473; Abbasi and Ahmad, 1976: 31; Ahmad et al., 1974: 56; Ahmad, 1979: 56; Ghauri, 1988: 77.

This genus Halys strikingly resembles Neohalys and Salixocoris in colour and general appearance like paraclypei tapering upward and apically acute, but it is a little closer to Neohalys because in both genera basal antennal segment distinctly shorter than apex of head (which is a tribal character and present in most of the Asian genera of tribe halyini), while in Salixocoris basal antennal segment is almost equal to head apex. Other than these characters, genus Halys is totally different from Neohalys in having comparatively short labium, striking difference is in the shape of paramere, both stem and blade and most peculiar is the apex of paramere blade and to some extent shape of pygophore too; the male genitalia of Salixocoris is also very different from genus Halys , particularly the venteroposterior margin of pygophore, and shape of conjunctival appendages.

Etymology Named for known distribution in Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan.