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Issue: Vol. 5506 No. 1: 5 Sept. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-09-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5506.1.6
Page range: 104-112
Abstract views: 87
PDF downloaded: 10

First record of Hornylia nalanda from India (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae)

Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE); Royal Enclave; Srirampura; Jakkur Post; Bangalore 560064; India; Department of Biological Sciences; Texas Tech University; Lubbock 79409; Texas; USA
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE); Royal Enclave; Srirampura; Jakkur Post; Bangalore 560064; India; Integrative Insect Ecology Research Unit; Department of Biology; Faculty of Science; Chulalongkorn University; Bangkok; Thailand
Post-Graduate Research Centre; Department of Zoology; Modern College of Arts; Science & Commerce (Autonomous); Shivajinagar; Pune 411005; India
Hemiptera Apterous Emesini female Sri Lanka thread-legged bug taxonomy

Abstract

The emesine bug, Hornylia nalanda Wygodzinsky, 1966, previously described from Sri Lanka on single male specimen, has been recorded in the present study from India, based on one female specimen collected from Malappuram, Kerala. Illustrated description of the first female specimen, along with images of the holotype and comments on related species and genera within the tribe Emesini are provided.

 

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