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Issue: Vol. 1530 No. 1: 23 Jul. 2007
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2007-07-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1530.1.7
Page range: 68
Abstract views: 49
PDF downloaded: 1

Kiskeyana new replacement name for the assassin bug Kiskeya  (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae)

Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA, 92521
American Museum of Natural History, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, New York 10024; and Department of Entomology, Comstock Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
Hemiptera Heteroptera Reduviidae

Abstract

Recently, Weirauch and Forero (2007) described the new genus and species Kiskeya palassaina from two localities in the Dominican Republic. Regrettably, this Caribbean apterous assassin bug was found to be a junior homonym of Kiskeya Konstatinov & Chamorro-Lacayo (2006) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). As such, we are proposing the new replacement name Kiskeyana, nomen novum for Kiskeya Weirauch & Forero, 2007. The type, and only included species, results in Kiskeyana palassaina (Weirauch & Forero), new combination

References

  1. Konstatinov, A.S. & Chamorro-Lacayo, M.L. (2006) A new genus of moss-inhabiting flea beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from the Dominican Republic. The Coleopterists Bulletin, 60, 275–290.

    Weirauch, C. & Forero, D. (2007) Kiskeya palassaina, new genus and new species of Saicinae (Heteroptera: Reduviidae) from the Dominican Republic. Zootaxa, 1468, 57–68.