| Perittopus zhengi | |
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Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Family: | Veliidae |
| Genus: | Perittopus |
| Species: | P. zhengi
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| Binomial name | |
| Perittopus zhengi Ye, Chen & Bu, 2013
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Perittopus zhengi is a species of riffle bug from Thailand ( Chiang Mai Province). [2] It was described in 2013 by Zhen Ye, Pingping Chen and Wenjun Bu, and is named after Professor Leyi Zheng. [2] Its authors placed it to the “eastern species group” within genus Perittopus. [2]
Description
Specimens of both sexes are orange and brown and have dark brown, segmented antennae. Among wingless ( apterous) specimens, females are longer than their male counterparts at respectively 3-3.1&mm and 2.7 mm body length. For winged (macropterous) specimens, this is the other way around: winged males are, at 3.4-3.5 mm, slightly larger than winged females, which measure 3.2-3.3 mm. [2]
Specimens resemble those of Perittopus asiaticus, to which it is closely related and with which it may co-occur. [2] Winged female specimens of both species are particularly difficult to reliably tell apart. [2]
References
- ^ "Perittopus Fieber, 1861". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f Ye, Zhen; Chen, Pingping; Bu, Wenjun (2013-02-17). "Contribution to the knowledge on the Oriental genus Perittopus Fieber, 1861 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae) with descriptions of four new species from China and Thailand". Zootaxa. 3616 (1): 31–48. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3616.1.3. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 24758790.
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