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Issue: Vol. 2 No. 3: 31 Jul. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-07-31
DOI: 10.11646/jihs.2.3.2
Page range: 144-149
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Extant or Extinct? A New Allelocoris Species Based on a Specimen Collected in 1899 (Heteroptera: Aradidae)

Hungarian Natural History Museum, Department of Zoology, Hemiptera Collection, 1088 Budapest, Baross u. 13., Hungary
Insecta Mezirinae apterous endangered forest destruction

Abstract

An apterous Mezirinae, Allelocoris ursulae new species is described from Petrópolis, Brazil. The area where this new species was collected, previously considered a stable biotope favorable for apterous aradid species, has suffered extensive deforestation and repeated mudslides. The species or its local population with unknown, but presumably limited distributional range, may even have become extinct. This concern is supported by the fact that no additional specimens have been collected in more than 125 years.

 

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