A NEW SPECIES OF PLOIARIA (HETEROPTERA: REDUVIIDAE: EMESINAE) FROM PENINSULAR MALAYSIA

摘要

Ploiaria vandoesburgi, new species, (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae: Leistarchini) is described based on a macropterous male from Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia. The new species has a long spiniferous process on the fore trochanter and differs from all other Oriental species by its fore femur having several small, rounded dark spots on its posterior surface. A key to the Oriental species of Ploiaria Scopoli, 1786, that have a spiniferous process on the fore trochanter is presented.