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Issue: Vol. 4613 No. 1: 4 Jun. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-06-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4613.1.11
Page range: 181–186
Abstract views: 59
PDF downloaded: 6

Spockia tagala gen. and sp. nov. a new monotypic genus of Asopinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) from the Philippines

Laboratory of Systematic Entomology, Department of Applied Biology, College of Agriculture and life Sciences, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea.
Laboratory of Systematic Entomology, Department of Applied Biology, College of Agriculture and life Sciences, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea.
National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Crop Protection Division, 166 Wanju-gun Jeollabuk-do, Korea
National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Crop Protection Division, 166 Wanju-gun Jeollabuk-do, Korea
Laboratory of Systematic Entomology, Department of Applied Biology, College of Agriculture and life Sciences, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea.
Hemiptera Taxonomy Cazira Blachia New Genus Asopinae Philippines Oriental Region

Abstract


Spockia tagala gen. and sp. nov., from the Philippines is herein described. Thus this new genus is herein proposed to hold this single species. Spokia gen. nov. can be distinguished by absence of some generic characters present in the morphologically similar oriental genera Blachia and Cazira, like the foretibial expansion and the gibbosity on the scutellum. The morphological comparisons of Spockia gen. nov. and the morphologically related genera are discussed.

 

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