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Issue: Vol. 3445 No. 1: 30 Aug. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-08-30
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3445.1.5
Page range: 67–68
Abstract views: 51
PDF downloaded: 2

Amnestus raunoi J. A. Lis, the only representative of the Amnestinae in the Old World: a synonym of Amnestus pusillus Uhler (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cydnidae)

Instituto de Biología, U.N.A.M. Apartado Postal 70-153, CP 04510 Mexico, DF
Instituto de Ecologia, A.C. Km. 2.5 Antigua Carretera a Coatepec # 351, CP 91070 Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
Department of Biosystematics, Opole University, Oleska 22, 45-052 Opole, Poland
Hemiptera Heteroptera Cydnidae

Abstract

The genus Amnestus was described by Dallas in 1851, as a New World genus, and it was ratified by Froeschner (1960) in his revision for the Western Hemisphere Cydnidae.

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