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Issue: Vol. 3936 No. 3: 20 Mar. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-03-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3936.3.8
Page range: 429–434
Abstract views: 57
PDF downloaded: 3

Ocelliemesina sinica, the second ocelli-bearing genus and species of thread-legged bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae)

Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Yuanmingyuan West Road, Beijing 100193, China
Tibet Academy of Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Sciences, No.130 Jinzhu West Road, Lhasa, Tibet 850032, China
The Key Laboratory of Forest Protection of China State Forestry Administration, Research Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China
Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Yuanmingyuan West Road, Beijing 100193, China
Reduviidae Emesinae new genus new species China

Abstract

Ocelliemesina sinica, gen. & sp. nov., from Yunnan Province, China is described. It represents the second genus and species with ocelli in the reduviid subfamily Emesinae. Dorsal habitus, male genitalia, and other diagnostic morphological characters of the new species are illustrated. The type specimen is preserved in the Entomological Museum of China Agricultural University, Beijing.