Perittopus zhengi

Perittopus zhengi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Heteroptera
Infraorder:	Gerromorpha
Superfamily:	Gerroidea
Family:	Veliidae
Subfamily:	Perittopinae
Genus:	Perittopus
Binomial name
	Perittopus zhengi; Ye, Chen & Bu, 2013

Introduction

Perittopus zhengi is a species of Riffle bug from Chiang Mai Thailand name after Professor Leyi Zheng.[1]

Description

Both males and females are orange and brown with dark brown, segmentented antennae. The apterous females are slightly longer at 3-3.1mm long with the males only measuring 2.7mm long. However, the macropterous (winged) males are larger than the females, measuring 3.4-3.5mm and 3.2mm respectively.[1]

References

Ye, Zhen; Chen, Pingping; Bu, Wenjun (2013-02-17). "Contribution to the knowledge on the Oriental genus Perittopus Fieber, 1861 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae) with descriptions of four new species from China and Thailand". Zootaxa. 3616 (1): 31–48. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3616.1.3. ISSN 1175-5334.

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[:0-1] Ye, Zhen; Chen, Pingping; Bu, Wenjun (2013-02-17). "Contribution to the knowledge on the Oriental genus Perittopus Fieber, 1861 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae) with descriptions of four new species from China and Thailand". Zootaxa. 3616 (1): 31–48. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3616.1.3. ISSN 1175-5334.