The Assassin Bug Genus Polytoxus (Insecta : Heteroptera : Reduviidae) from Vietnam, with the Description of a New Species

Abstract

Five species of the reduviid genus Polytoxus, including a new species, are reported from Vietnam : P. eumorphus Miller, 1941, P. rufinervis Hsiao, 1965, P. selangorensis Miller, 1940, P. bicolor Villiers, 1943, and P. hiemalis sp. nov. The former three are recorded from Vietnam for the first time. The new species is distinguished from the most similar one, P. femoralis Distant, 1903, by the brownish-yellow tibiae with black apical annulations, the apices of the hindfemora extending well beyond the tip of the abdomen, and the anterior pronotal lobe not being carinate marginally.