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Issue: Vol. 4514 No. 2: 7 Nov. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-11-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4514.2.11
Page range: 283–292
Abstract views: 47
PDF downloaded: 4

A description of a new genus and new species of sotol-feeding Eccritotarsini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Bryocorinae) from Durango, Mexico

Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73072-7029
Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024-5192.
Hemiptera Eccritotarsini Nolinoidae Dasylirion new species

Abstract

The new genus and species Sotolensis keltoni is described in the Eccritotarsini (Miridae: Bryocorinae) from material collected on expeditions to Durango, Mexico, by Leonard A. Kelton from the Canadian National Collection. All specimens collected were found on sotol, or Dasylirion sp. (Asparagaceae: Nolinoidae). Habitus images and images of the female and male genitalia are included, and a discussion of genital structure evolution is discussed.

 

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