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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-06-29
Page range: 134–138
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Melambyrsus hoplita Breddin rediscovered (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Discocephalinae): redescription of genus and species

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Departamento de Zoologia, Av. Bento Gonçalves 9500, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil 91501-970.
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Departamento de Zoologia, Av. Bento Gonçalves 9500, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil 91501-970.
Hemiptera Pentatomidae Discocephalinae

Abstract

The monotypic Melambyrsus Breddin was described as related to Ochlerus Spinola and Melanodermus Stål, but its identity remained uncertain since the holotype had been considered probably lost. We located in the Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut at Müncheberg a female that we believe is the type specimen of Melambyrsus hoplita Breddin, and concluded that both the species and the genus were valid based on somatic and genital characteristics. Here Melambyrsus and its type species M. hoplita are redescribed.

 

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