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Issue: Vol. 5446 No. 4: 2 May 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-05-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5446.4.1
Page range: 451-487
Abstract views: 72
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New species of the plant bug genus Neolygus Knight from Japan, Taiwan and Thailand (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirini)

Division of Invertebrate Zoology; American Museum of Natural History; New York; SSH Biology Section; Nagasaki West High School; Nagasaki 852-8014; Japan
Hemiptera Miridae Neolygus new species new synonymy SEM documentation

Abstract

Ten new species of the Holarctic-Oriental mirine genus Neolygus Knight are documented, on the basis of specimens collected from eastern Asia and the Oriental Region: N. autumnus n. sp., N. chichibumontis n. sp., N. chikanoshima n. sp., N. hasegawai n. sp. and N. yonanus n. sp. (Japan); N. babai n. sp., N. formosaroseus n. sp., N. fuscovultus n. sp. and N. rufifemoratus n. sp. (Taiwan); and N. chaiyaphum n. sp. (Thailand). The generic characters are discussed, and a Japanese taxon, Neolygus tsugaruensis (Yasunaga, 1992), is herein proposed as a junior synonym of N. roseus (Yasunaga, 1991). Updated key to Japanese species and checklist of the Old World congeners are also provided.

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