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Issue: Vol. 4173 No. 3: 5 Oct. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-10-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4173.3.4
Page range: 251–258
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A unique new genus and species of the phyline plant bug tribe Hallodapini from the Philippines and Thailand (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae: Hallodapini)

Research Associate, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024, c/o Nameshi 2-33-2, Nagasaki 852-8061, Japan.
JSPS Postdocroral Fellow, Entomological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan.
Heteroptera Miridae Phylinae Hallodapini Peniculimiris new genus new species Philippines Thailand

Abstract

A unique phyline plant bug representing a new genus and a new species, Peniculimiris meniscus, is documented on the basis of a pair of specimens collected from Nakhon Ratchasima, central Thailand and Palawan, the Philippines. The new genus Peniculimiris, herein placed in the tribe Hallodapini, is characteristic in having a bundle of brush-like, stiff setae on the scutellum and presence of a ventral spine on the genital segment of each sex. The phylogenetic position of Peniculimiris in the Hallodapini and the function of the spines are discussed.

 

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