Abstract
The Japanese species of the heterogastrid genus Sadoletus Distant are revised taxonomically. Three species are recog-nized, including a new species, S. ryukyuensis sp. nov., which has been regarded so far as S. valdezi Bergroth in Japan. "True" S. valdezi is confirmed in Japan as well. A key to the Japanese species is provided.
References
Bergroth, E. (1918) Studies in Philippine Heteroptera. I. Philippine Journal of Science (D), 13, 43–126.
Distant, W.L. (1903) The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota. Vol. 2 (1). Taylor & Francis, London, 242 pp.
Hayashi, M. (2002) Heteroptera. In: Azuma, S. (Ed.), Check List of the Insect of the Ryukyu Islands. 2nd ed. Biological Society of Okinawa, Nishihara, Okinawa, pp. 125–149.
Hidaka, T. (1959) Studies on the Lygaeidae. XIII. Kontyû, 27, 199–201.
Miyamoto, S. & Yasunaga, T. (1989) Heteroptera. In: Hirashima, Y. (Ed.), A Check List of Japanese Insects. Vol. 1. Entomological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, pp. 151–188.
Miyoshi, K. (1997) Collecting records of Sadoletus izzardi from Yamaguchi Pref. Gekkan Mushi, a Monthly Journal of Entomology, 319, 43.
Péricart, J. (2001) Superfamily Lygaeoidea Schilling, 1829 – Seed bugs (Lygaeidae). In: Aukema, B. & Rieger, Ch. (Eds.), Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region. Volume 4. Netherland Entomological Society, Amsterdam, pp. 35–220.
Scudder, G.G.E. (1962) New Heterogastrinae (Hemiptera) with a key to the genera of the World. Opuscula Entomologica, 27, 117–127.
Servadei, A. (1951) Nota sull’ Heterogaster urticae F. e sul genere Heterogaster Schill. (Hemiptera Heteroptera Myodochidae). Redia, 36, 171–220.
Slater, J.A. (1964) A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. I. Waverly Press, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A, 778 pp.
Tomokuni, M. (1989) Heteroptera (Insecta) of the Amami Islands, the Ryukyus, Japan. I. Pentatomomorpha. Memoirs of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, 22, 185–195.