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Description of a new species of the genus Pycanum (Hemiptera: Heteroptera:Tessaratomidae: Tessaratomini) from India with comments and key to extant species of the genus

Post-Graduate Research Centre, Department of Zoology, Modern College of Arts, Science & Commerce, Shivajinagar, Pune 411 005, India.
Department of Zoology, ADKS College, Dodamarg 416512, India.
Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Département Adaptations du Vivant, UMR 7179, MECADEV, Entomologie, C. P. 50, 57 rue Cuvier, F-75231 Paris cedex 05, France.
Hemiptera Heteroptera Tessaratomidae Pycanum Maharashtra State Western India

Abstract

A new species of a tessaratomid bug, namely Pycanum occidentale sp. nov, is described with comments on the other species of the genus found in India. This species can be easily distinguished from the other species of Pycanum by the shape of male genitalia, especially pygophore and parameres. This becomes the fourth species of Pycanum in India and the first one from western India. A key to the extant species of the genus is also provided along with diagnostic images of pygophores and parameres for three species found in India.

 

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