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Issue: Vol. 2530 No. 1: 8 Jul. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-07-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2530.1.3
Page range: 29–38
Abstract views: 44
PDF downloaded: 2

Notes on Yangiella Hsiao (Hemiptera: Aradidae: Mezirinae), with description of a new species from China

Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Yuanmingyuan West Road, Beijing 100094, China
Institute of Life Science and Technology, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Zhaowuda Road 81, Huhhot 010022, Inner Mongolia, China
Tiroler Landesmuseum, Josef -Schraffl-Strasse 2a, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Yuanmingyuan West Road, Beijing 100094, China
Hemiptera Aradidae Mezirinae Yangiella China new species

Abstract

The aradid genus Yangiella Hsiao is reviewed. Two species are recognized. The type-species, Y. mimetica Hsiao, is redescribed and the new species, Y. montana Zhang, Bai, Heiss & Cai, is described. A key to species is given and the diagnostic morphological features of the two species are illustrated.

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