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Issue: Vol. 3616 No. 3: 20 Feb. 2013
Type: Articles
Published: 2013-02-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3616.3.8
Page range: 291–297
Abstract views: 24
PDF downloaded: 1

Ambohitantelya yuripopovi gen. nov. et sp. nov., a new apterous Mezirinae from Madagascar (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Aradidae) with unique metathoracic evaporatoria

Tiroler Landesmuseum, Josef-Schraffl-Strasse 2a, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Czech University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Department of Forest Protection and Game Management, Kamýcká 1176, CZ-165 21 Praha 6-Suchdol, Czech Republic
Hemiptera Heteroptera Aradidae Mezirinae new genus new species evaporatoria apterous taxonomy Madagascar

Abstract

In addition to the ten genera of apterous Mezirinae recorded to date from Madagascar, a new genus Ambohitanlelya gen. nov. with uniquely formed metathoracic evaporatoria is erected for the A. yuripopovi sp. nov., which is described and illustrated.

 

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