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Issue: Vol. 2031 No. 1: 9 Mar. 2009
Type: Article
Published: 2009-03-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2031.1.2
Page range: 21–35
Abstract views: 46
PDF downloaded: 2

New genus of Enicocephalinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Enicocephalomorpha) from Sabah based on three new species

Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science, Department of Zoology, Viničná 7, CZ-128 44 Praha 2, Czech Republic
Moravian Museum, Department of Entomology, Hviezdoslavova 29a, Brno, CZ-627 00 & Forestry and Game Management Research Institute, Department of Forest Protection, Jíloviště – Strnady, Praha 5 – Zbraslav, CZ-156 04, Czech Republic
Hemiptera Insecta Heteroptera Enicocephalidae taxonomy new genus and species Malaysia Sabah key

Abstract

A new genus and three new species of Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Enicocephalomorpha: Enicocephalidae: Enicocephalinae are described from Malaysia: Sabah, viz. Phaenicocleus n. gen. sabahensis n. sp. (type species), P. schwendingeri n. sp. and P. minor n. sp. (all species male-based). The new genus is macropterous and belongs to that group of Enicocephalinae characterized by presence of large, closed discal cell and absence of basal cell in forewing. The species are distinct in the character states of the median of pronotum, shape of unpaired sclerite of the pro-eusternum, and shape and length of a median keel of meta-eusternum – these are characters previously unemployed as diagnostic in the Enicocephalidae.

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