Dieuches ochromus
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Dieuches ochromus is a bug of the genus Dieuches in the family Rhyparochromidae , which is only known from two localities in the city of Chittagong , Bangladesh .
features
Dieuches ochromus has an elongated body with a distinctive pattern of two dark transverse bands on the rear half of the body, which merge into one another on the longitudinal axis of the body. It becomes about 8 millimeters long, with a width of about 2.3 millimeters, the head is as wide as it is long. The ventral side of the head and thorax are dark brown, those of the abdomen are lighter brown. The first antenna segment is orange with a brown base, sometimes mostly brown in female bugs. The second segment is pale orange with a brown ring at the end, the third brown, darkening towards the distal end, the fourth segment is brown with a wide yellow ring at the base.
Dieuches ochromus is very similar to the species Dieuches indicus , Dieuches pamelae , Dieuches armatipes and Dieuches longicollis , from which it differs mainly in the dimensions of the head.
distribution
The type location of Dieuches ochromus is the residential area Nasirabad ( 22 ° 21 ′ 47.9 ″ N , 91 ° 49 ′ 44.8 ″ E ) in the city of Chittagong in Bangladesh, where the holotype was caught in January 1970 on a light source. Another location was in April 1970, just a few hundred meters away Panchlaish ( 22 ° 21 '45 " N , 91 ° 50' 3.8" O ).
Systematics
Dieuches ochromus is one of more than 130 bedbugs of the genus Dieuches in the tribe Rhyparochromini , subfamily Rhyparochrominae of the family Rhyparochromidae .
Initial description
It was first described in 1995 by the New Zealand entomologist Alan C. Eyles . The holotype is a male specimen collected in January 1970. It is in the collection of the Moravian State Museum in Brno , Czech Republic , with one allotype and two male and nine female paratypes .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Alan C. Eyles: A new species of Dieuches Dohrn (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae) from Bangladesh, with notes on D. armipes (F.) . In: New Zealand Journal of Zoology 1995, Volume 22, No. 1, pp. 45-48, doi: 10.1080 / 03014223.1995.9518023 .