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Published: 2016-07-26
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Redescription of Dardjilingia Yang (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) from India

National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bangalore, 560024, India.
Hemiptera Gynenica Neogynenica Lestonocoris Umgababa Lestonocorini

Abstract

The genus Dardjilingia Yang, 1936 (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Pentatominae: Lestonocorini), comprising a single species, Dardjilingia nigriventris Yang, 1936, is redescribed and illustrated, including the descriptions of male and female genitalia for the first time. The genus Dardjilingia is removed from the present tribe Lestonocorini.

 

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