A new species and first record of dilatops weirauch (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae) from New Caledonia

Memoirs of the Queensland Museum

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 119-122

  Cassis, Gerasimos ^a   Weirauch, Christiane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dilatops; Heteroptera; Leucophoropterini; Miridae; New Caledonia; New species; Phylinae

Indexed keywords

INSECT; NEW RECORD; NEW SPECIES; TAXONOMY; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; TYPE SPECIMEN;

NEW CALEDONIA [MELANESIA]; MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

HETEROPTERA; INSECTA; MIRIDAE; PHYLINAE;

EID: 49949090744     PISSN: 00798835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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