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Issue: Vol. 4088 No. 1: 8 Mar. 2016
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2016-03-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4088.1.9
Page range: 146–150
Abstract views: 66
PDF downloaded: 3

New species of Ribesaptera Heiss from eastern Madagascar (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Aradidae)

Czech University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Department of Forest Protection and Entomology, Kamýcká 1176, CZ-165 21 Praha 6-Suchdol, Czech Republic
Tiroler Landesmuseum, Josef-Schraffl-Strasse 2a, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
Moravian Museum, Department of Entomology, Hviezdoslavova 29a, CZ-627 00, Brno, Czech Republic.
Hemiptera Heteroptera Aradidae

Abstract

The rich flat bug fauna of Madagascar comprises eleven apterous genera of Mezirinae with 21 species (Heiss 2012, Heiss & Marchal 2012) to date, and all of them are endemic: Ambohitantelya Heiss & Baňař 2013 (1 sp.); Antsirabenus Heiss 2008 (2 spp.); Cervinotaptera Heiss & Marchal 2012 (1 sp.); Chlonocoris Usinger & Matsuda 1959 (3 spp.); Cimicomanes Kiritshenko 1959 (5 spp.); Classeyana Hoberlandt 1963 (1 sp.); Paulianum Hoberlandt 1957 (1 sp.); Pericartaptera Heiss 2009 (2 spp.); Ribesaptera Heiss 2011 (1 sp.); Robertiessa Hoberlandt 1963 (1 sp.) and Tananarivea Drake 1957 (3 spp.).

 

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