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Issue: Vol. 4958 No. 1: 14 Apr. 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-04-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4958.1.44
Page range: 690–701
Abstract views: 136
PDF downloaded: 13

Revision of the Neotropical Stilt Bug Genus Metajalysus Štusák (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Berytidae), with Descriptions of Three New Species

Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, c/o National Museum of Natural History, P. O. Box. 37012, MRC-168, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 20013–7013.
División Entomología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, CONICET, Paseo del Bosque s/n, 1900 La Plata, Argentina.
Hemiptera Insecta New World true bugs distribution hosts identification key

Abstract

The stilt bug genus Metajalysus Štusák is revised and three new species are recognized. A neotype of the type species, M. horvathi Štusák, is designated and the new species M. clavatus, n. sp. from Argentina, M. graziae, n. sp. from Argentina and Bolivia, and M. pilosus, n. sp. from Ecuador are described. Digital images of the adult male and female and male genitalia are provided and a key to the species of the genus is given.

 

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