Open AccessA REMARKABLE CASE OF ALARY DIMORPHISM IN THE ARADIDAE (HEMIPTERA) WITH A GENERIC SYNONYMY AND A NEW SPECIES
Author(s) -
Monteith G. B.
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
australian journal of entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1440-6055
pISSN - 1326-6756
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-6055.1969.tb00733.x
Subject(s) - sexual dimorphism , biology , hemiptera , zoology , synonym (taxonomy) , genus , taxonomy (biology) , type (biology) , type species , evolutionary biology , ecology
The genus Zeugocoris Usinger & Matsuda is sunk as a junior synonym of Caecicoris Kormilev since the respective type species, Z. microcerus (Walker) and C. oviventris Kormilev, are found to be dimorphic forms of the one species. The morphological changes associated with wing reduction in the micropterous morph are described and the taxonomic and biological implications of this dimorphism are discussed. Additional distributional and biological data for C. microcerus are presented and C. latus sp. n. is described from New Britain.