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Issue: Vol. 4425 No. 2: 30 May 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-05-30
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4425.2.8
Page range: 327–341
Abstract views: 82
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Redefinition of two little known mirine plant bug genera Babacoris and Paramiridius (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirinae)

Research Associate, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024, c/o Nagasaki West High School (SSH: Super Science High School Section, Biology), Takenokubo 12-9, Nagasaki 852-8014, Japan.
Department of Biology, National Museum of Natural Science, 1 Guancian Rd., Taichung, Taiwan.
Tokushima Prefectural Museum, Bunka-no-Mori Park, Mukôterayama, Hachiman-chô, Tokushima 770-8070, Japan.
Hemiptera Heteroptera Miridae Mirinae Mirini Babacoris new combination Paramiridius

Abstract

A long neglected plant bug genus Babacoris Miyamoto, 1994 (Mirinae: Mirini), proposed for a single Taiwanese species, B. striatus Miyamoto, is redefined and redescribed as a valid genus, based on recent rediscovery of the type species from Hengchun, Taiwan; the neotype is designated for B. striatus. The genus is now presumed to be closely related to Paramiridius Miyamoto & Yasunaga which also has been poorly known since the original description. A species recently described from Laos, Babacoris laomontanus (Oh, Yasunaga & Lee) comb. n., is transferred from Paramiridius. An updated checklist of the tribe Mirini in Taiwan is incorporated, with proposition of a new combination, Adelphocorisella minutum (Poppius) comb. n., having been left in Megacoelum Fieber as incertae sedis.

 

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