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Issue: Vol. 1370 No. 1: 4 Dec. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-12-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1370.1.3
Page range: 39–47
Abstract views: 52
PDF downloaded: 2

First record of the genus Libiocoris Kormilev 1957 (Heteroptera: Aradidae) from China, with the description of two new species

Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Yuanmingyuan West Road, Beijing 100094, China
Animal Department, Tianjin Natural History Museum, Machang Road, Tianjin 30074, China
Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Yuanmingyuan West Road, Beijing 100094, China
Hemiptera Heteroptera Aradidae Carventinae Libiocoris China new record new species

Abstract

Libiocoris Kormilev 1957 is recorded from China for the first time. Libiocoris heissi Bai, Yang & Cai, and Libiocoris sinensis Bai, Yang & Cai, are described as new to science. A key to the species of this genus is given and diagnostic morphological features of new species are illustrated.

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