Female copulatory tubes and the subdivision of the genus Anthocoris (Heteroptera: Anthocoridae: Anthocorini)

Title:

Female copulatory tubes and the subdivision of the genus Anthocoris (Heteroptera: Anthocoridae: Anthocorini)

Creator:

Ke, Yunling and Bu, Wenjun

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:6774bb44-6589-4655-b8ec-c91765435741
uuid:6774bb44-6589-4655-b8ec-c91765435741

Subject:

Heteroptera, Anthocoridae, Anthocoris, copulatory tube, and species group

Type:

article, model:article, and TEXT

Description:

We report a systematic study of the female copulatory tubes of forty species in the genus Anthocoris, most of which are from the Northern Hemisphere. Our results indicate that female copulatory tubes can be used as a reliable character to identify females and analyze phylogenetic relationships in this genus. We propose thirteen species groups based on the copulatory tubes of females, other morphological characters of both sexes, and the previous species groups adopted in the continental faunas.

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Source:

European Journal of Entomology | 2007 Volume:104 | Number:1

Harvested from:

CDK

Metadata only:

false