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Issue: Vol. 5264 No. 1: 12 Apr. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-04-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5264.1.10
Page range: 137-142
Abstract views: 204
PDF downloaded: 18

Notes on the morphology of two species of Limnocoris Stål (Heteroptera: Naucoridae) from South America

Laboratório de Entomologia; Instituto Oswaldo Cruz; Rio de Janeiro; 21040-360; RJ; Brazil
Enns Entomology Museum; Division of Plant Sciences; University of Missouri; Columbia; Missouri; 65211; U.S.A.
Hemiptera Limnocorinae new records paralectotype wing polymorphism

Abstract

In the present study, new distribution records and notes on the wing polymorphism of Limnocoris pallescens (Stål, 1861), a species distributed in Colombia and Venezuela, are presented. Also, after the discovery of two female paralectotypes of L. pectoralis Montandon, 1897 deposited at the Natural History Museum in London, ongoing uncertainty about the shape of the diagnostic mediosternite VII (subgenital plate) of this species has been resolved.

 

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