The assassin bug genera Nagustoides and Stenolemus (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) newly recorded from Japan

Abstract

Two assassin bug genera, Nagustoides Miller, 1954 of Harpactorinae and Stenolemus Signoret, 1858 of Emesinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae), are recorded from Japan for the first time, with the presence of the representative species N. lii Zhao, Cai & Ren, 2006 and S. alikakay Rédei & Tsai, 2010. Distribution ranges of the two species are revised by the present finding.

Rediscovery of Platerus pilcheri Distant (Hemiptera: Reduviidae), a forgotten assassin bug from India, with comments on its range extension

“…Miller (1954: 52) separated Nagustoides from Nagusta thus: "Allied to Nagusta Stål, [...] but it differs in having the basal segment of the rostrum longer than the remaining segments together, the anterior pronotal lobe tuberculate, the posterior lobe without subdorsal spines or gibbosities and the expanded 5 th connexival segment spinous". Despite this, subsequent papers have illustrated Nagustoides with discal tubercles on the posterior lobe of pronotum (Zhao et al 2006a;Ishikawa & Naka 2016), a character seen in Bhagyasree's specimens, and, even described in P. bhavanii. To better define Nagusta and Nagustoides a detailed study of their types species need to be carried out.…”