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Issue: Vol. 3 No. 2: 30 Apr. 2026
Type: Article
Published: 2026-04-30
DOI: 10.11646/jihs.3.2.3
Page range: 150-161
Abstract views: 43
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A New Species of Bagriella McAtee and Malloch from South America (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Emesinae)

Laboratório de Diptera, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas, Araraquara, São Paulo, Brazil.
Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Rondônia, Porto Velho, Rondônia, Brazil.
Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil.
Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil.
Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas, Araraquara, São Paulo, Brazil.
Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas, Araraquara, São Paulo, Brazil; Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA.
Amazon Biodiversity Paratagalis Quasitagalis Saicini Tagalis

Abstract

Bagriella meneguettii Gil-Santana and Oliveira, new species, is described based on a female specimen from Brazil. A revised diagnosis of Bagriella McAtee and Malloch, 1923 is provided, based on characters of both species of the genus, and it is recorded for the first time from South America. High-resolution photographs of the female holotype of Bagriella ornata McAtee and Malloch, 1923, the only previously known specimen of the genus, are presented.

 

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