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Issue: Vol. 2916 No. 1: 14 Jun. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-06-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2916.1.2
Page range: 35–40
Abstract views: 33
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of Aphelocheirus (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Aphelocheiridae) from southern India

Enns Entomology Museum, Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA
Sri Paramakalyani Centre for Environmental Sciences, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Alwarkurichi-627412, Tamilnadu, India
Sri Paramakalyani Centre for Environmental Sciences, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Alwarkurichi-627412, Tamilnadu, India
Hemiptera Aphelocheirus Aphelocheiridae Nepomorpha Heteroptera new species lotic India

Abstract

A new species of Aphelocheirus (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Aphelocheiridae) inhabiting riffles of a stream in Kerala state in southern India is described. Aphelocheirus kaygieyess n. sp. is diagnosed by widely separated hemelytra and the pattern of dark maculation on the vertex. This species is compared to other Indian species of Aphelocheirus. Seven species of Aphelocheirus are known now from India.

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