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A Taxonomic Revision of the Assassin Bug Genus, Tympanistocoris (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Reduviinae)

Insects 2023, 14(2), 165; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects14020165
by Mingyuan Fan, Yingqi Liu and Wanzhi Cai *
Reviewer 1:
Shin-ichi Akimoto
Reviewer 2: Anonymous
Reviewer 3:
Viridiana Vega-Badillo
Insects 2023, 14(2), 165; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects14020165
Submission received: 19 January 2023 / Revised: 3 February 2023 / Accepted: 5 February 2023 / Published: 8 February 2023
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Systematics, Phylogeny, Evolution and Diversity of True Bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera))

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

This paper taxonomically describes a new species of the assassin bug, Tympanistocoris usingeri, with the redescription of T. humilis. This is a taxonomic paper of high quality, and the figures of the bugs are elaborated and splendid. I think that there are no large problems in this paper.

 

Minor comments are,

Line 18, 110, and 193. “emarginted” should be “emarginated”.

Line 28. Italicize “Pheletocoris”.

Line 191. “by larger and darker” may be “by larger and darker body”.

Author Response

Dear reviewer：

Thank you so much for your comments!

Please see our response in the attachment PDF.

Best Regards

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 2 Report

1. Line 295 "Tympanistocoris is closely related to the Australian genus Noualhierana..." Authors should avoid invoking 'closely related' without a cladistic analysis. Instead, consider using 'closely resembles' 

2. Line 296 "The polyphyly of Reduviinae have been discussed..." Typo. Change to "has" been

3. Line 297 "... and greatly helped us to understand the diversity and evolution of Reduviinae." Grammatically unsound. Consider changing to "The polyphyly of Reduviinae have been discussed by Weirauch and Huang & Weirauch, which has greatly helped us to understand the diversity and evolution of Reduviinae"

Author Response

Dear reviewer：

Thank you so much for your comments!

Please see our response in the attachment PDF.

Best Regards

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 3 Report

Dear authors and editor 

The mauscript "A taxonomic revision of the assassin bug genus Tympanistocoris 2 (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Reduviinae) " is a very valuable contribution on the genus Tympanistocoris giving solid evidence of a new species, the descriptions and figures are adequate, however there are some ambiguous terms that should be reconsidered, the figures I suggest to reorganize following the numbering.

Best regards

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

Dear reviewer：

Thank you so much for your comments!

Please see our response in the attachment PDF.

Best Regards

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

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