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Issue: Vol. 4138 No. 3: 18 Jul. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-07-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4138.3.11
Page range: 577–590
Abstract views: 76
PDF downloaded: 1

Revision of the Neotropical genus Carvalhoiella De Carlo (Heteroptera: Nepomorpha: Naucoridae)

Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 04263-000, Brazil.
Enns Entomology Museum, Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65211, U. S. A.
Laboratório de Entomologia da Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso, Nova Xavantina, Mato Grosso, 78690-000, Brazil.
Hemiptera Carvalhoiella Cryphocricinae Naucoridae new species South America

Abstract

The genus Carvalhoiella De Carlo, 1963 includes saucer bugs (Heteroptera: Naucoridae) that live predominantly on the vertical rocks next to falls and cascades of waterfalls. Thus far, it has been recorded only in South America and includes three described species. In the present paper, based on type specimens and additional material, we present detailed distributions and diagnostic information of the three described species of Carvalhoiella and the descriptions of two new species from central-western Brazil: C. acuminata sp. nov. and C. helenae sp. nov. An illustrated taxonomic key also is presented.

 

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