Iphita fasciata Stehlík & Jindra 2008, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Stehlík, Jaroslav L.
name: Jindra, Zdeněk
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Largidae
Iphita
Iphita fasciata

description: Iphita fasciata sp. nov.   
(Fig. 5)  
 Type material. HOLOTYPE: ♀, INDIA: MAHARASTRA: Western Ghats Mts., Amboli env., 50 km W Belgaum, 21.- 23.v.2006, O. Šafránek lgt. (PPUA).   
 Description. Colouration (Fig. 5). Body above mainly red. Black colouration confined to dorsal surface of head (except apex of clypeus and antennifers), antennae (except base of antennomere 1), callar lobe, two large but less distinct spots laterally on pronotal lobe, scutellum, narrow lateral stripe on base of clavus and less distinct stripe along anal vein, transversal median stripe on corium and small spot on corial apex, membrane, sternum (except of ostioles), and ventrites (except of laterotergites); stripe on corium slightly skewed towards lateral margin, bending near to subcosta and continued by less apparent prolongation on costal margin towards corial base. Apex of clypeus, antennifers, extreme base of antennomere 1, head ventrally, bucculae, labium, lateral margins of pronotum, pronotal lobe (except of two less distinct large lateral spots), clavus (except of outer base and darkened stripe along anal vein), corium (except median transverse stripe), metathoracic scent gland ostioles, and laterotergites of abdomen red. Legs largely black, only coxae, trochanters, bases and apices of all femora, and wide bases of tibiae red.   
Structure. Large species. Pronotal collar very narrow, callar lobe less gibbous and strongly approaching anterior pronotal margin. Lateral pronotal margins less wide and only slightly elevated dorsally, more strongly rounded anteriorly, only slightly concave medially and strongly divergent laterally. Profemora in apical third with numerous smaller teeth on both sides of longitudinal furrow; basal two-thirds with only small denticles. Labium reaching two-thirds of ventrite III.  
Measurements (all in mm). Female (holotype). Body length 16.47; head: length 2.16, width (including eyes) 2.32, interocular width 1.46; lengths of antennomeres: 1 – 3.29, 2 – 3.40, 3 – 2.32, 4 – 2.43; pronotum: length 3.05, width 5.24; scutellum: length 2.48, width 2.81; corium: length 9.07, width 2.97.  
 Differential diagnosis. This species differs from all described species of the genus, namely Iphita coimbatorensis (Distant, 1919), I. dubia (Breddin, 1901), I. fimbriata (Stål, 1863) (Fig. 6), I. fuscorubra sp. nov. (Fig. 7), I. grandis Distant, 1903, I. heissi sp. nov. (Fig. 8), I. kubani Stehlík, 2005a, I. limbata Stål, 1870, I. lycoides (Walker, 1873), I. rubricata Stehlík & Jindra, 2006b, and I. varians (Breddin, 1901) (Figs. 9-10), by the colouration of corium, consisting of a black transversal stripe on a red background.   
 Etymology. The species epithet is the Latin adjective fasciatus (= striped), referring to the colour pattern.   
 Distribution. Western India, Maharastra state.
description: Published as part of Stehlík, Jaroslav L. & Jindra, Zdeněk, 2008, New taxa of the Largidae and Pyrrhocoridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from the Oriental Region, pp. 611-648 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (2) on pages 616-619, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5341841