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Issue: Vol. 5541 No. 1: 25 Nov. 2024
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2024-11-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5541.1.6
Page range: 89-94
Abstract views: 58
PDF downloaded: 2

First records of the treehopper Trichaetipyga infantilis (Ball, 1937) in Ecuador with the description of its nymph and notes of natural history, and morphology

Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ; Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales; Instituto de Biodiversidad Tropical IBIOTROP; Laboratorio de Zoología Terrestre; Museo de Zoología; Quito 170901; Ecuador.
Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ; Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales; Instituto de Biodiversidad Tropical IBIOTROP; Laboratorio de Zoología Terrestre; Museo de Zoología; Quito 170901; Ecuador.; Tandayapa Cloud Forest Station; Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales; Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ; P.O. Box 17-1200-841; Quito; Ecuador
Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ; Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales; Instituto de Biodiversidad Tropical IBIOTROP; Laboratorio de Zoología Terrestre; Museo de Zoología; Quito 170901; Ecuador.
Hemiptera Ecuador Trichaetipyga infantilis

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