Conquistator, a new genus for Podisus mucronatus Uhler, 1897 (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Asopinae) with a re-descripton of type species
D.A. Gapon
Abstract. Conquistator gen. nov., is described to hold the North American species Podisus mucronatus Uhler, 1897. This new genus differs from Podisus Herrich-Schaeffer, 1851, in having the digitiform process on the paramere corpus more characteristic of species in the American asopine genera Apoecilus Stål, 1870 and Supputius Distant, 1889. The new genus, however, also differs from these two genera by essential morphological characters. The type species, Podisus mucronatus Uhler, 1897, is re-described based on a morphological examination of the male and female terminalia.
Key words: Heteroptera, Pentatomidae, Asopinae, Conquistator mucronatus, Podisus, Apoecilus, Supputius, new genus, new combination
Zoosystematica Rossica, 2009, 18(2): 264-270 ▪ Published in print 25 December 2009
https://doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2009.18.2.264 ▪ Open full article 
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