Australian Museum Journal Description of a new pelagic hemipteron from Port Jackson
- Shortform:
- Skuse, 1891, Rec. Aust. Mus. 1(8): 174–177
- Author(s):
- Skuse, F. A. A.
- Year published:
- 1891
- Title:
- Description of a new pelagic hemipteron from Port Jackson
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 1
- Issue:
- 8
- Start page:
- 174
- End page:
- 177
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.1.1891.1251
- Language:
- English
- Plates:
- plate xxvii
- Date published:
- 31 July 1891
- Cover date:
- 31 July 1891
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Subjects:
- INSECTA: HEMIPTERA; TAXONOMY
- Digitized:
- 23 July 2009
- Reference number:
- 1251
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (83kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (684kb PDF)
Abstract
Ovate, widest behind the middle. Glaucous above, with a silvery bloom; yellowish-ochreous beneath. Antennae (including jointlets) and legs black, with a very minute greyish pubescence. Head with two triangular reddish-yellow spots, which do not meet on the hind margin. Male andfemale. Antennae at the base, antennal tubercles, prosternum, coxae and trochanters, and a spot (more prominent in female) beneath the base of femora, in the fore-legs, coxae, and trochanters (with the exception of a black spot beneath), in intermediate legs, a spot beneath the apex of coxae, and the outer margin of trochanters, in the hind-legs, fore and intermediate acetabula beneath, and margin of first and whole of second genital