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Issue: Vol. 1696 No. 1: 1 Feb. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-02-01
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1696.1.4
Page range: 48–56
Abstract views: 43
PDF downloaded: 4

Revision of the genus Psorus Bergroth, 1914 (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Discocephalinae)

Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Rua Augusto Correa N0 1, 66075-110 Belém, Pará, Brazil
Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Av. Bento Gonçalves 9.500, 91501-970 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Rua Augusto Correa N0 1, 66075-110 Belém, Pará, Brazil
Hemiptera Heteroptera Discocephalini neotropics new species taxonomy

Abstract

The monotypic genus Psorus Bergroth is revised and two new species from the Brazilian Amazon region are described and illustrated: P. paraensis sp. nov. (Pará State) and P. manauara sp. nov. (Amazonas State).

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