Notes on some toad bugs from China (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Gelastocoridae)

Abstract

The three species of Nerthra Say, 1832 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gelastocoridae) occurring in China are reviewed. Dorsal habitus photographs of the two species, Nerthra asiatica (Horváth, 1892) and Nerthra indica (Atkinson, 1889), are provided, accompanied by illustrations of male genitalic structures and female ventral aspect of posterior abdominal segments. The male of Nerthra asiatica is recorded and reviewed for the first time.

Three New Species of Velvety Shore Bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Ochteroidea) From Mid-Cretaceous Kachin Amber Shed Light on the Evolution of Rostrum Length in Ochteroidea

“…The fossil ochterids definitely contains four genera and five species (Kment et al, 2020), including the oldest on the fossil record-three genera and four species from the Early Cretaceous of China: Pristinochterus zhangi Yao et al, 2007, P. ovatus Yao et al, 2011, Angulochterus quatrimaculatus Yao et al, 2011, and Floricaudus multilocellus Yao et al, 2011, and one genus and species from Miocene Dominican amber: Riegerochterus baehri Popov and Heiss, 2014a. Fossil gelastocorids include three genera and five species, with two species from Early Cretaceous of Brazil (Ruf et al, 2005;Xie and Liu, 2018), two species from the mid-Cretaceous of Myanmar (Poinar and Brown, 2016) and one species from the late Holocene of Chile (Faúndez and Ashworth, 2015). Only one genus and species of Pseudonerthridae was reported: Pseudonerthra gigantea (Ruf et al, 2005), from the Early Cretaceous of Brazil.…”