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Issue: Vol. 5458 No. 2: 28 May 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-05-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5458.2.3
Page range: 229-246
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Contribution to the hyaliodine fauna (Miridae: Deraeocorinae: Hyaliodini) of New Caledonia with a description of two new species and a checklist of New Caledonian plant bugs

Natural History Collections; Faculty of Biology; Adam Mickiewicz University; Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 6; 61-614 Poznań; Poland
Institute of Biology; Biotechnology and Environmental Protection; Faculty of Natural Sciences; University of Silesia in Katowice; Bankowa 9; 40-007 Katowice; Poland; Department of Natural History; Upper Silesian Museum; Pl. Sobieskiego 2; 41-902 Bytom; Poland
Hemiptera biodiversity distribution Montagneria taxonomy true bugs

Abstract

Two new species of the Montagneria Akingbohungbe, 1978—M. barbarae sp. nov. and M. nataliae sp. nov.—are diagnosed and described. Photographic images of habitus and genital structures, as well as scanning electron micrographs of the selected structures of both species are provided. The gland openings located on the thorax are figured and discussed. New records of three hyaliodine species, Femurocoris spinosus Carvalho, 1977, Montagneria cuneatus (Distant, 1920), and M. nigroscutellatum (Distant, 1920) in New Caledonia are also presented. Moreover, a checklist of the Miridae species of New Caledonia is given.

 

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