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Issue: Vol. 3357 No. 1: 26 Jun. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-06-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3357.1.6
Page range: 63–68
Abstract views: 36
PDF downloaded: 1

Redescription of Ambrysus montandoni La Rivers, 1963 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Naucoridae), with the first records for Brazil

Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Caixa Postal 478, AM, Brasil
Departamento de Parasitologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Caixa Postal 486, MG, Brasil
Enns Entomology Museum, Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65211, USA
Hemiptera Ambrysus montandoni description new records Brazil Venezuela

Abstract

The naucorid Ambrysus montandoni La Rivers is known from males collected from southern Venezuela. Presented here are aredescription of the male, original description of the female, illustrations of both sexes and genitalia, and the first records of the species from Brazil. Subgeneric associations in Ambrysus are discussed.

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