Praetextatus typicus Distant, 1901

Kushwaha, Sandeep, Kumar, Hirdesh & Jahan, Sonam, 2023, First record of genus Praetextatus Distant (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Caystrine) from India, Species (e 24 s 1024) 24 (73), pp. 1-4 : 2-3

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scientific name	Praetextatus typicus Distant, 1901
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Treatment

Praetextatus typicus Distant, 1901 : (Holotype - female, Burma, deposited at BMNH, London).

Material examined. f, INDIA: Himachal Pradesh, Kullu District, Great Himalayan National Park , 31.792°N, 77.567°E, 2754 m, 15.ix.2016 (Kumar) GoogleMaps .

Redescription. General body features. Macropterous, body ovately oblong.

Remark: New to India.

Coloration

Body above with legs and labium dark brown, corium little pale colour, membrane fuliginous; antennae brown with basal half segment stramineous; body beneath blackish red; pronotum with two small central pale fascia on anterior disc; dorsally thickly punctuate; scutellum transversely wrinkled ( Figure 1A View Figure 1 ).

Head

Anteocular region longer than posterior of head including eyes; length of antennal segments I 0.5 mm, II 1.4 mm, III 1.3 mm, IV 1.6 mm, V 1.7mm, antennal formula 1> 2> 3> 4> 5; labium reaching mesocoxae; length of anteocular region 0.9 mm; length of remainder of head 1 mm; width of head including eyes 3.1 mm ( Figure 1A View Figure 1 ).

Thorax

Pronotum distinctly more than 2x broader than its length, anterior margin distinctly wider than head width, lateral margins slightly sinuate, length 2.8 mm width 6.7 mm; scutellum slightly longer than broad with sub rounded apical lobe, length 5 mm, width 4 mm; metathoracic scent ostiole round and elongated, auricle thumb-like ( Figure 2B View Figure 2 ) and have a sharp elevation ( Figure 2A View Figure 2 ), not merged with surface; distance base scutellum-apex clavus 3.9 mm; apex clavus-apex corium 2.7 mm; apex corium-apex abdomen

including 2.2 mm; apex scutellum-apex abdomen including membrane 3.7 mm ( Figure 1B View Figure 1 ). Rostrum passing the mid coxa ( Figure 2C View Figure 2 ).

Measurements (mm)

Female: Body length 13.5; head length 1.9, inter-ocular distance 1; rostral length 6.4, length of rostral segments I: 1.6, II: 1.7, III: 1.8 and IV: 1.3; length of pronotum 2.8, length of anterior pronotal lobe 2.8, length of scutellum 5, width of scutellum 4; length of abdomen 7.3, length of forecoxa: 0.82, trochanter: 0.30, femur: 1.28, tibia: 1.25, tarsus: 0.42, claw: 0.10; midcoxa: 0.49, trochanter: 0.31, femur: 1.32, tibia: 1.28, tarsus: 0.60, claw: 0.12; hindcoxa: 0.50, trochanter: 0.32, femur: 1.48, tibia: 1.79, tarsus: 0.70, pretarsus: 0.13.

Genitalia: Female terminalia (after digestion). Lettering: lt VIII—laterotergite VIII; lt IX— laterotergite IX; sp; vlf VIII—valvifers VIII; vlf IX—valvifers IX ( Figure 1C View Figure 1 ). Genital plate described in ( Figures 2 View Figure 2 D-F).

Distribution: India: Himachal Pradesh. Elsewhere: Myanmar, Taiwan.