Bongiella, Krüger, 2018

Krüger, Andreas, 2018, Vehicle-mounted net sampling of airborne micro-Heteroptera in western Liberia, West Africa: 1. Isometopinae (Miridae), Zootaxa 4378 (4), pp. 491-515 : 500

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4378.4.3
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:32850AFB-424E-4F85-BA2D-7F97BA3EDF98
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5980047
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A5D976-FFCF-FFD3-6DA1-90CCB739F840
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Bongiella
status	gen. nov.

Treatment

Bongiella gen. nov.

Diagnosis. Clavus parallel-sided. Scutellum equilateral, about 1.5x length of commissure. Head as long as broad (frontal view), broadest across eyes. Eye width only 1.7x minimum interocular space on frons. Head from above somewhat dumbbell-shaped, eyes prominently bulging. Body oval. Two metafemoral trichobothria with compact trichomae.

Type species. Bongiella nodistylis new species

Etymology. The generic name was coined from the geographic origin, the Bong county in Liberia.