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Missanos gulafuscos Menard & Schuh 2011, new species

Description

Missanos gulafuscos, new species Figure 27; plate 6

Diagnosis: See generic diagnosis.

DESCRIPTION: See generic description.

ETYMOLOGY: Named for the long, dark brownish-gray setae on the gula and ventral surface of the head.

HOSTS: Unknown; collected in light traps and by canopy fogging.

DISTRIBUTION: Papua New Guinea.

HOLOTYPE: PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Madang Province: Baiteta, 5.017 ° S 145.75 ° E, 11 Jun 1996, O. Missa, Light Trap, 18 (00302042) (ISNB).

PARATYPES: PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Madang Province: Baiteta, 5.017 ° S 145.75 ° E, 27 Jun 1995, O. Missa, 1♀ (00302043) (ISNB); 10 Jun 1996, O. Missa, Light Trap, 18 (00302040) (ISNB); 11 Jun 1996, O. Missa, 18 (00302041) (ISNB).

Notes

Published as part of Menard, Katrina L. & Schuh, Randall T., 2011, Revision Of Leucophoropterini: Diagnoses, Key To Genera, Redescription Of The Australian Fauna, And Descriptions Of New Indo-Pacific Genera And Species (Insecta: Hemiptera: Miridae), pp. 1-159 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (361) on page 114, DOI: 10.1206/361.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5410834

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Biodiversity

Collection code
ISNB
Event date
1995-06-27 , 1996-06-10 , 1996-06-11
Verbatim event date
1995-06-27 , 1996-06-10 , 1996-06-11
Scientific name authorship
Menard & Schuh
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Miridae
Genus
Missanos
Species
gulafuscos
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Type status
holotype , paratype
Taxonomic concept label
Missanos gulafuscos Menard & Schuh, 2011