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Issue: Vol. 1677 No. 1: 11 Jan. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-01-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1677.1.4
Page range: 57–68
Abstract views: 33
PDF downloaded: 18

Nesidiorchestes hawaiiensis Kirkaldy: new tribal assignment and lectotype designation (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Orthotylinae: Orthotylini)

Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY USA 10024-5192.
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 2006 Australia
Hemiptera Insecta Miridae Taxonomy Hawaii

Abstract

The preponderance of documented morphological evidence presented for Nesidiorchestes hawaiiensis Kirkaldy, 1902 argues for its tribal reassignment to the Orthotylini from the Halticini. A lectoype is designated for a male syntype maintained in the Natural History Museum, London.

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