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Issue: Vol. 1556 No. 1: 22 Aug. 2007
Type: Article
Published: 2007-08-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1556.1.3
Page range: 51–60
Abstract views: 25
PDF downloaded: 1

Revision of the Papua New Guinea genus Elemacoris Miller  (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae)

Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Yuanmingyuan West Road, Beijing 100094, China
Department of Entomology, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, rue Vautier 29, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Yuanmingyuan West Road, Beijing 100094, China
Hemiptera Reduviidae Harpactorinae Elemacoris new species Papua New Guinea

Abstract

The species of the Papua New Guinea genus Elemacoris in the reduviid subfamily Harpactorinae are revised. Two species, E. vittatus Miller, 1958 and E. doesburgi Zhao, Constant & Cai, sp. nov., are described or redescribed, illustrated, and keyed. The diagnostic characters of the genus are modified. The type specimens of the new species are preserved in the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences.

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