First record of the lace bug genus Eritingis (Drake and Ruhoff) (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae) from Japan and Thailand

Jun Souma

doi:10.3897/BDJ.9.e63188

First record of the lace bug genus Eritingis (Drake and Ruhoff) (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae) from Japan and Thailand

Biodivers Data J. 2021 Apr 27:9:e63188. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.9.e63188. eCollection 2021.

Author

Jun Souma^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Entomological Laboratory, Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan Entomological Laboratory, Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, Kyushu University Fukuoka Japan.
² Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC1), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC1), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Tokyo Japan.

Abstract

Background: The lace bug genus Eritingis Drake and Ruhoff, 1962 is widely distributed in the Australian and Oriental Regions, whereas only a single species, E. recentis (Drake and Poor, 1937), has been recorded from the Oriental Region. To date, E. recentis is known to occur in Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Singapore and Vietnam, but has not been recorded from Japan and Thailand.

New information: Eritingis and E. recentis are recorded from Japan and Thailand for the first time.

Keywords: Heteroptera; Tingidae; Eritingis recentis; Japan; Oriental Region; Thailand; eastern Asia; lace bug; new record.

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