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Issue: Vol. 1153 No. 1: 17 Mar. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-03-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1153.1.7
Page range: 63–68
Abstract views: 37
PDF downloaded: 18

A new Fulvius species from Azores Islands (Heteroptera: Miridae: Cylapinae)

Free University of Brussels, Systematic and Animal Ecology, Department of Population Biology, C.P. 160/13, av. F. D. Roosevelt, 50, B - 1050 Brussels, Belgium.
València 123-125, ent., 3a, E-08011 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Silesian University, Department of Zoology, Bankowa 9, 40-007 Katowice, Poland
Heteroptera Miridae Cylapinae Fulvinii Fulvius new species Azores Islands

Abstract

The new species Fulvius borgesi is described from Azores Islands. The male and female genital structures are illustrated.

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