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Mertila bhamo Stonedahl 1988
Creators
- 1. Department of Entomology, University of Agricultural Sciences (GKVK), Bangalore 560 065, India & Universitetskaya Emb., St Petersburg 199034, Russia
- 2. Saint Petersburg State University, 7 / 9 Universitetskaya Emb., St. Petersburg 199034 Russia & Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
Description
Mertila bhamo Stonedahl, 1988
Fig. 8A–C
Mertila bhamo Stonedahl, 1988: 37.
Diagnosis
Recognized by the following characters: Total length 5.5–6.3; antennal segment II dark brown, subequal to head width; anterior part of body broadly reddish, head, pronotum and scutellum bright reddish, base of hemelytron reddish at level with apex of scutellum, remainder bluish black (Fig. 8A); tibiae brown; genital capsule dorsally with two strongly twisted, tapering, hollow tubular processes (Fig. 8C).
Material examined
Holotype
BURMA • ♂; Bhamo; 24.244° N, 97.232° E; Aug. 1885; Fea leg.; NHM.
Other material
INDIA • 1 ♀; port interception without locality data; 22 Jul. 1939; Ex. Vanda sp.; USNM.
Distribution
Burma. Record from India needs confirmation.
Notes
Published as part of Yeshwanth, H. M. & Konstantinov, Fedor V., 2021, Review of the plant bug tribe Eccritotarsini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae) of India and Sri Lanka with description of two new genera and six new species, pp. 1-69 in European Journal of Taxonomy 745 on page 21, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2021.745.1311, http://zenodo.org/record/4690362
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- NHM , USNM
- Event date
- 1939-07-22
- Verbatim event date
- 1939-07-22
- Scientific name authorship
- Stonedahl
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Family
- Miridae
- Genus
- Mertila
- Species
- bhamo
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mertila bhamo Stonedahl, 1988 sec. Yeshwanth & Konstantinov, 2021
References
- Stonedahl G. M. 1988. Revisions of Dioclerus, Harpedona, Mertila, Myiocapsus, Prodromus and Thaumastomiris (Heteroptera: Miridae, Bryocorinae: Eccritotarsini). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 187: 1 - 99.