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Descriptions of new species and new records of water bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha & Nepomorpha) from southeastern Brazil
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- Rodrigues, Juliana Mourão Dos Santos1
- Cordeiro, Isabelle Da Rocha Silva1
- Floriano, Carla Fernanda Burguez1
- Paiva, Nathália De Oliveira1
- Magalhães, Oséias Martins1
- Júnior, Evaldo Alves Joaquim2
- Martins, Thaynara De Souza1
- Silva, Rafaella Cardoso Da1
- Siqueira, Gabriel Vieira1
- Salles, Frederico Falcão3
- Viala, Séverine4
- Khila, Abderrahman4
- Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo1
- 1. Laboratório de Entomologia, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. • JMSR: julianamourao@yahoo.com.br, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2872-138X • IRSC: rocha.belle@gmail.com, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2762-1379 • CFBF: carlla.floriano@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5176-5084 • NOP: nathaliapaiva.93@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1693-2617 • OMM: biooseiasmartins@gmail.com, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4988-7119 • EAJJ: joakimjunior777@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0009-0001-6660-8727 • TSM: thay-martins@live.com, https://orcid.org/0009-0005-9287-303X • RCS: cardoso.rafaella@outlook.com; https://orcid.org/0009-0009-4866-888X; • GVS: g.avi.si@hotmail.com, https://orcid.org/0009-0002-8709-3862 • FFFM: ppmeiameiameia@gmail.com, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6692-0323 & Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5242, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 69007 Lyon, France. • SV: severine.viala@ens-lyon.fr, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7905-6677 • AK: abderrahman.khila@ens-lyon.fr, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0908-483X * Corresponding author
- 2. Laboratório de Entomologia, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. • JMSR: julianamourao@yahoo.com.br, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2872-138X • IRSC: rocha.belle@gmail.com, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2762-1379 • CFBF: carlla.floriano@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5176-5084 • NOP: nathaliapaiva.93@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1693-2617 • OMM: biooseiasmartins@gmail.com, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4988-7119 • EAJJ: joakimjunior777@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0009-0001-6660-8727 • TSM: thay-martins@live.com, https://orcid.org/0009-0005-9287-303X • RCS: cardoso.rafaella@outlook.com; https://orcid.org/0009-0009-4866-888X; • GVS: g.avi.si@hotmail.com, https://orcid.org/0009-0002-8709-3862 • FFFM: ppmeiameiameia@gmail.com, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6692-0323 & Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5242, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 69007 Lyon, France. • SV: severine.viala@ens-lyon.fr, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7905-6677 • AK: abderrahman.khila@ens-lyon.fr, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0908-483X * Corresponding author & Laboratório de Insetos Aquáticos, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Seropédica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- 3. Museu de Entomologia, Departamento de Entomologia, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil. fsalles@gmail.com, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8331-5929
- 4. Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon
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Rodrigues, Juliana Mourão Dos Santos, Cordeiro, Isabelle Da Rocha Silva, Floriano, Carla Fernanda Burguez, Paiva, Nathália De Oliveira, Magalhães, Oséias Martins, Júnior, Evaldo Alves Joaquim, Martins, Thaynara De Souza, Silva, Rafaella Cardoso Da, Siqueira, Gabriel Vieira, Salles, Frederico Falcão, Viala, Séverine, Khila, Abderrahman, Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo (2023): Descriptions of new species and new records of water bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha & Nepomorpha) from southeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 5393 (1): 1-86, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5393.1.1, URL: https://mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.5393.1.1/52547
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