Moesz Gusztáv - Soós Lajos (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 28. (Budapest 1934)

Hungerford, H. B. ; Evans, N. E.: The Hydrometridae of the Hungarian National Museum and other studies in the family. (Hemiptera)

TRUNCATE ABOUT TWICE AS BROAD AS LONG: THE ROSTRUM SURPASSES THE

V EYES BY ABOUT THREE-FOURTHS OF THE POSTOCULAR DISTANCE. THE ANTENNAL FORMULA IS AS FOLLOWS: LST; 2ND: 3RD: 4TH::L7: 33: 91: 55. PRONOTUM: LENGTH, 55 UNITS; THE ENCIRCLING ROW OF PITS PARALIEL TO THE ANTERIOR MARGIN AND SCATTERED PITS ON POSTERIOR LOBE PRESENT BUT NOT CONSPICUOUS. METANOTUM : THE HEMELYTRA ARE LONG, SURPASSING ANTERIOR MARGIN OF THE SIXTH ABDOMINAL SEGMENT. C O X A E : THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE FIRST AND SECOND COXAE IS TO THAT BETWEEN THE SECOND AND THIRD AS 33:62: THE ANTERIOR AND MIDDLE ACETABULA WITH FOUR PITS EACH, THE POSTERIOR ACETABULA WITH ONE PIT ON TOP. F E M O R A: THE ANTERIOR FEMORA ATTAINING BASE OF ANTENNAL ELEVATIONS ONLY AND THE POSTERIOR FEMORA JUST ATTAINING TIP OF THE ABDOMEN. ABDOMEN: THE MALE WITHOUT VENTRAL PROCESSES ON THE SIXTH OR SEVENTH ABDOMINAL SEGMENT. THE SEVENTH (FIRST GENITAL) IS SLENDER AND COMPRESSED LATERALLY BY OBLIQUE GROOVES WHICH GIVE THE VENTER OF THIS SEGMENT A VERY BROAD KEEL THAT IS FRINGED WITH A FEW GOLDEN HAIRS; SPARSE BANDS OF SIMILAR HAIRS OCCUR ON THE VENTER OF THE SIXTH SEGMENT AS CONTINUATIONS OF THOSE OF THE SEVENTH. (SEE PLATE III). DESCRIBED FROM ONE MALE SPECIMEN LABELED ,,S. RHODESIA, S. AFRICA, G. E. HUTCHINSON, COLL. B. M. 1928-395". N O T E S. THIS SPECIES IS VERY NEAR Hydrometra Smithi BUT CAN BE DISTINGUISHED FROM IT BY COMPARING THE MALE GENITAL SEGMENTS AS SHOWN IN THE DRAWINGS ON PLATE 111. Hydrometra Smithi sp. n. (Plate III). SIZE AND COLOR. LENGTH. 9.9 MM (MALE HOLOTYPE), 11.8 MM (FEMALE ALLOTYPE): GENERAL COLOR OF THE BODY OF THE MALE YELLOWISH BROWN; A NARROW, MEDIAN, FROSTED STRIPE EXTENDS FROM THE ANTERIOR MARGIN OF THE EYES TO THE POSTERIOR MARGIN OF THE PRONOTUM; VENTRAL PART OF THE HEAD DARKER BROWN; VENTRAL PARTS OF THORAX AND ABDOMEN WITH FROSTED APPEARANCE: A MEDIAN FROSTED STRIPE ON PRONOTUM, BORDERED SUCCESSIVELY ON EACH SIDE BY A NARROW PURPLISH-BROWN BAND, A BROAD YELLOWISH-BROWN BAND, AND ON EACH MARGIN OF THE PRONOTUM BV A REDDISH-BROWN BAND; THE GENERAL COLOR OF THE FEMALE IS DARKER THAN THAT OF THE MALE; A NARROW WHITE STRIPE EXTENDS FROM THE APEX OF THE HEAD TO THE END OF THE PRONOTNM ON THE ALLOTYPE: A WHITE BAND