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Issue: Vol. 2216 No. 1: 1 Sep. 2009
Type: Articles
Published: 2009-09-01
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2216.1.4
Page range: 49–56
Abstract views: 37
PDF downloaded: 3

Two new species of the genus Amemboides Polhemus & Andersen, 1984, stat. nov. (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha: Gerridae) from Vietnam

TRAN Anh Duc, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore Present address: Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, Hanoi University of Science, 334 Nguyen Trai, Thanh Xuan, Hanoi, Vietnam
John T. POLHEMUS, Colorado Entomological Institute, 3115 S. York St., Englewood, CO 80113 USA
Hemiptera Gerridae Amemboides new species first record Vietnam

Abstract

Amemboides Polhemus & Andersen, 1984, stat. nov., is herein recognised as separate genus from Amemboa Esaki, 1925. This paper describes two new species of Amemboides from Vietnam: Amemboides falcatus and Amemboides gladiolus. Amemboides sexualis (Polhemus & Andersen, 1984) is recorded from Vietnam for the first time.

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