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Issue: Vol. 1676 No. 1: 9 Jan. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-01-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1676.1.5
Page range: 51–56
Abstract views: 37
PDF downloaded: 12

Redescription of the monotypic genus Volkeliopsis Poppius (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Bryocorinae)

Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology,University of Rzeszow,Cegielniana 12,35-310 Rzeszow, Poland.
Systematic and Animal Ecology, Department of Population Biology,Free University of Brussels,C.P. 160/13, av. F. D. Roosevelt,50 B - 1050 Brussels, Belgium.
Hemiptera taxonomy Heteroptera Miridae Bryocorinae Volkeliopsis redescription male genital structures

Abstract

The monotypic genus Volkeliopsis POPPIUS and its type species Volkeliopsis frontalis are redescribed. The male genital structures are described for the first time.

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