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Issue: Vol. 3599 No. 2: 4 Jan. 2013
Type: Articles
Published: 2013-01-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3599.2.6
Page range: 197–200
Abstract views: 21
PDF downloaded: 2

A new species of Isometopus Fieber, the first record of Isometopinae (Heteroptera: Miridae) from Thailand

Research Associate, Department of Entomology, American Museum of Natural History, New York; c/o Nameshi 2-33-2, Nagasaki 852-8061, Japan
Tokushima Prefectural Museum, Bunka-no-Mori Park, Mukôterayama, Hachiman-chô, Tokushima, 770-8070 Japan
Sakaerat Environmental Research Station (SERS), Sakaerat Biosphere Reserve, Thailand Institute of Scientific & Technological Research, Ministry of Science and Technology, 1 Moo 9, A. Udom Sab, Wang Nam Khieo, Nakhon Ratchasima 30370, Thailand
Hemiptera Heteroptera Miridae

Abstract

The isometopine plant bug genus Isometopus Fieber currently comprises 69 nominal species (Schuh, 1995). The majority of the members are known to occur in the Old World tropics, subtropics and warm temperate zone; 26 species have been reported from the Afrotropical Region, and Asian faunas documented mainly by Lin (2004) [Taiwan], Ren (1991) and Ren & Yang (1988) [China], Yasunaga (2001, 2005) [Japan], and Yasunaga & Duwal (2006) [Nepal]. However, there is no reliable account of the Isometopinae from Thailand, or Indochina.

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