Neopeplus Chérot, Malipatil & Schwartz, 2003

Chérot, F. & Malipatil, M. B., 2016, A review of Adelphocoris - Creontiades - Megacoelum complex (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirini), with descriptions of two new genera and four new species, Zootaxa 4126 (2), pp. 151-206 : 170

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4126.2.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5470052

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Neopeplus Chérot, Malipatil & Schwartz, 2003
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12. Neopeplus Chérot, Malipatil & Schwartz, 2003 View in CoL

( Figure 35 View FIGURES 28 – 35 )

Neopeplus Chérot, Malipatil & Schwartz, 2003: 258 View in CoL (as new genus) [type-species by original designation: Neopeplus trianai Malipatil, Chérot & Schwartz, 2003 View in CoL ]. Neopeplus: Schuh 2002 View in CoL –2013 (online catalog).

Diagnosis. Body long, total length 7–8.4, straight, uniformly yellow and red ( Fig. 35 View FIGURES 28 – 35 ). Vertex sulcate, not carinate. Labium reaching posterior coxae. First antennal segment elongate, slightly club-like, straight. Eyes wide, posterior margin contiguous with pronotal collar. Pronotum relatively shining with reflective red calli including a small fuscous spot in middle and a fuscous posterior margin. Scutellum relatively flat, not ampule-like. Hemelytra translucent, reflective, yellow and red, their punctation shallow, clavus and corium with irregular but distinct rows of recumbent short setae, their veins raised. Cuneus reflective red. Tibia with light spines. Secondary gonopore complete, devoid of sclerite or long hairs; vesica devoid of comb or true spiculum; phallic support present in some species. Parieto-vaginal rings large but narrow, devoid of anterior projection or other additional sclerite; dorsolabiate plate reduced. Dorsal process of posterior wall absent, median process reduced, interramal sclerite (A structures) classical, undivided, interramal lobes (E-structures) wide.

Included species. N. dogoni Schwartz, Chérot & Malipatil in Chérot, Malipatil & Schwartz, 2003 *, N. trianai Malipatil, Chérot & Schwartz in Chérot, Malipatil & Schwartz, 2003 *.

Distribution. Australia (Queensland), Papua New Guinea.

Host plants. Myrtaceae (Chérot, Malipatil & Schwartz 2003).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Miridae

Loc

Neopeplus Chérot, Malipatil & Schwartz, 2003

Chérot, F. & Malipatil, M. B. 2016
2016
Loc

Neopeplus Chérot, Malipatil & Schwartz, 2003 : 258

Malipatil 2003: 258
2003
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