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Issue: Vol. 1465 No. 1: 3 May. 2007
Type: Articles
Published: 2007-05-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1465.1.5
Page range: 47–53
Abstract views: 55
PDF downloaded: 1

A new genus of tribelocephaline assassin bugs from Borneo  (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae)

Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, H-1088 Budapest, Baross u. 13., Hungary
Hemiptera Heteroptera Reduviidae Tribelocephalinae taxonomy new genus new species Borneo

Abstract

Enigmocephala deinorhyncha gen. n., sp. n. (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Tribelocephalinae: Tribelocephalini) is described based on an apterous female from Borneo. The new genus differs sharply from all other genera within the subfamily Tribelocephalinae by its unique labium. A key for the identification of the genera of Tribelocephalini is presented. Acanthorhinocoris Miller, 1940 is transferred from Tribelocephalini to Opistoplatyini.

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