Leptocoris cinnamonensis Izzard 1960

A robust yellowish species with hemelytra black-margined, often brachypterous. Pronotum appears raiesed and is coarsely dotted. Scutellum shaped like an equilateral triangle.

Description in:
Göllner-Scheiding, U. 1980. Revision der afrikanischen Arten sowie Bemerkungen zu weiteren Arten der Gattungen Leptocoris Hahn, 1833, und Boisea Kirkaldy, 1910. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, N. F. 27: 103–148. https://doi.org/10.1002/mmnd.19800270113
https://sci-hub.ru/https://doi.org/10.1002/mmnd.19800270113

Translated from German:
Yellow-colored, robust and broad, quite typical animals with sparse, short dark pilosity, pronotum roughly dotted and lateral edge of the corium black-brown.
Head yellowish, convex and broad, clypeus slightly longer than paraclypeus and at the end narrowly dark colored; Antennae blackish-brownish with strong segments and short protruding pilosity; pronotum unicolor yellow, more or less clearly convex, roughly dotted and wrinkled with non-continuous median line, posterior corners slightly rounded; scutellum yellow, about as wide as it is long, finely patterned and with a dark spot above; corium of the hemelytra yellow with black-brown lateral margin, sparsely coarsely dotted and wrinkled, membrane dark brown, often brachypterous; legs black-brown; back yellowish; underside yellowish colored, anterior thorax segments each blackish-brown; rostrum reaching the hind coxae.

Distribution: Namibia, Botswana, South Africa

iNat observations: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&taxon_id=1539067

Posted on 08 de março de 2024, 06:28 PM by traianbertau