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

Abstract

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

New records of three lace bug species from Laos (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Tingidae)

“…The recorded specimen (Figs. 1A, 2A) matches well with the photographs of the holotype (National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution 2022), the Japanese and Thai specimens (Souma 2021), illustrations (Drake and Ruhoff 1962;Drake and Ruhoff 1965), and the original description (Drake and Poor 1937a) of E. recentis in terms of their morphological characteristics except for the length of the labium. The Laotian specimen differs from the other known specimens in that the labium reaches the middle part of the mesosternum.…”