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Issue: Vol. 5507 No. 4: 16 Sept. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-09-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5507.4.4
Page range: 565-578
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A new apterous species of the genus Ploiaria (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) from Maharashtra, India

Post-Graduate Research Centre; Department of Zoology; Modern College of Arts; Science and Commerce; Shivajinagar; Pune 411005; India
Post-Graduate Research Centre; Department of Zoology; Modern College of Arts; Science and Commerce; Shivajinagar; Pune 411005; India; 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 794009; Texas; USA.
Post-Graduate Research Centre; Department of Zoology; Modern College of Arts; Science and Commerce; Shivajinagar; Pune 411005; India
Post-Graduate Research Centre; Department of Zoology; Modern College of Arts; Science and Commerce; Shivajinagar; Pune 411005; India
National Chung Hsing University; Department of Entomology; 250 Kuo Kuang Rd.; 40227 Taichung; Taiwan
Hemiptera Taxonomy true bugs assassin bugs new species Indomalaya

Abstract

A new species of thread-legged assassin bugs, Ploiaria enigmatica sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae: Leistarchini), is described from Western Ghats of Maharashtra, India. The new species has an interesting set of characters not found in any Indomalayan members of the genus Ploiaria Scopoli, 1786, and it appears to be morphologically similar to some Afrotropical congeners.

 

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