Two new genera and species of the Gigantometopini (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Miridae, Isometopinae) from Borneo with remarks on the distribution of the tribe

Artur Taszakowski; Junggon Kim; Claas Damken; Rodzay A Wahab; Aleksander Herczek; Sunghoon Jung

doi:10.3897/zookeys.941.47432

Two new genera and species of the Gigantometopini (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Miridae, Isometopinae) from Borneo with remarks on the distribution of the tribe

Zookeys. 2020 Jun 16:941:71-89. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.941.47432. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Artur Taszakowski¹, Junggon Kim¹, Claas Damken², Rodzay A Wahab², Aleksander Herczek¹, Sunghoon Jung^{3

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Affiliations

¹ Institute of Biology, Biotechnology and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Silesia in Katowice, Bankowa 9, 40-007 Katowice, Poland.
² Institute for Biodiversity and Environmental Research, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Jalan Universiti, BE1410, Darussalam, Brunei.
³ Laboratory of Systematic Entomology, Department of Applied Biology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea.
⁴ Department of Smart Agriculture Systems, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea.

Abstract

Two new genera, each represented by a single new species, Planicapitus luteus Taszakowski, Kim & Herczek, gen. et sp. nov. and Bruneimetopus simulans Taszakowski, Kim & Herczek, gen. et sp. nov., are described from Borneo. Detailed photographs of male habitus and genital structures are presented. The checklist with distributional records for all known taxa of Gigantometopini is also provided.

Keywords: Asia; biodiversity; distribution; jumping tree bugs; plant bugs; true bugs.

Artur Taszakowski, Junggon Kim, Claas Damken, Rodzay A. Wahab, Aleksander Herczek, Sunghoon Jung.