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Issue: Vol. 2 No. 3: 31 Jul. 2025
Type: Note
Published: 2025-07-31
DOI: 10.11646/jihs.2.3.6
Page range: 207-208
Abstract views: 28
PDF downloaded: 3

Pohnpeia, a Replacement Name Proposed for the Preoccupied Generic Name, Ponapea Ruckes, 1963 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Asopinae)

Department of Entomology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58108-6050, USA
Pacific Biological Survey, Bishop Museum, 1525 Bernice Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96817-2704, USA
Replacement Name Heteroptera

Abstract

Ruckes (1963), in his monograph of the Pentatomoidea (Insecta: Hemiptera) of Micronesia, described Ponapea arachnoides as a new genus and species of Asopinae (Pentatomidae) from the Island of Ponape in the Caroline Islands...

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