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Issue: Vol. 4461 No. 3: 22 Aug. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-08-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4464.3.7
Page range: 421–428
Abstract views: 62
PDF downloaded: 31

First record of the genus Gomesius (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae) from India, with description of a new species

PG Research Centre, Department of Zoology, Modern College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Pune 411 005, India.
Government College of Arts, Science & Commerce, Quepem, Goa.
Hemiptera Heteroptera Reduviidae Emesinae new species Indomalaya

Abstract

Gomesius indicus sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae: Leistarchini), collected in Goa State, India, is described. This is the first record of the genus Gomesius Distant, 1903, from India.

 

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