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Perittopus zhengi

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Perittopus zhengi
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Veliidae
Genus: Perittopus
Species:
P. zhengi
Binomial name
Perittopus zhengi
Ye, Chen & Bu, 2013[1]

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

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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

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  1. ^ "Perittopus Fieber, 1861". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  2. ^ 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.