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Issue: Vol. 3 No. 3: 31 Jul. 2026
Type: Article
Published: 2026-07-31
DOI: 10.11646/jihs.3.3.3
Page range: 247-260
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Two New Genera and Species of Oriental Deraeocorini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Deraeocorinae), with the First Record of the Tribe Saturniomirini in the Oriental Region

Nagasaki West High School, SSH Biology, Takenokubo 12-9, Nagasaki 852-8014, Japan
Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA
Hemiptera Local fauna Asia classification new taxa predator SEM documentation

Abstract

Two unique deraeocorine plant bug species representing new genera are reported from Nepal and Thailand: Botocudocapsus parvissimus new genus and new species (from Nepal and Thailand) and Samakhusiella lucidopilosa new genus and new species (from Nepal). The tribal placement of the genus Apilophorus Hsiao and Ren in Surinamellini is re-evaluated and here proposed to be transferred to Saturniomirini; the single representative of the genus, A. fasciatus Hsiao and Ren, 1983, is reported from Thailand for the first time.

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