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A new species of Pyrrhosphodrus (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) from the Caatinga ecosystem in Brazil, with notes on the genus

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Lapischies, Rita, Forero, Dimitri, Barcellos, Aline, Salomão, Renato P. (2019): A new species of Pyrrhosphodrus (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) from the Caatinga ecosystem in Brazil, with notes on the genus. Zootaxa 4543 (3): 388-400, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4543.3.4

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