Eur. J. Entomol. 97 (2): 213-221, 2000 | DOI: 10.14411/eje.2000.039

Dorso-abdominal scent glands and metathoracic evaporatoria in adults of central European Rhopalidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), with a discussion of phylogeny and higher systematics

Jitka DAVIDOVÁ-VILÍMOVÁ1, Markéta NEJEDLÁ1, Carl W. SCHAEFER2
1 Department of Zoology, Charles University, Viniená 7, 128 44 Praha 2, Czech Republic; e-mail: vilim@natur.cuni.cz
2 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, U-43, Storrs, CT 06269-3043, USA

The reservoirs of dorso-abdominal scent glands and the occurrence of the metapleural scent gland evaporatoria in the adults of nine central European and one North American species in the family Rhopalidae (Hemiptera) were studied. All published data about the persistence of the dorso-abdominal scent glands in rhopalid adults are reviewed, and systematic and phylogenetic implications are derived from the patterns of variation.

Keywords: Scent glands, evaporatoria, development, morphology, phylogeny, classification, Heteroptera, Rhopalidae

Received: July 12, 1999; Accepted: January 13, 2000; Published: October 7, 2000  Show citation

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DAVIDOVÁ-VILÍMOVÁ, J., NEJEDLÁ, M., & SCHAEFER, C.W. (2000). Dorso-abdominal scent glands and metathoracic evaporatoria in adults of central European Rhopalidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), with a discussion of phylogeny and higher systematics. EJE, 97(2), 213-221. doi: 10.14411/eje.2000.039
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