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A new species of the genus Cyclopelta (Hemiptera: Dinidoridae) from Thailand, with a key to its Oriental species

Anna Kocorek

subject

National Museum of Natural HistoryType (biology)DinidoridaebiologyGenusInsect ScienceHeteropteraZoologyKey (lock)biology.organism_classificationCyclopeltaHemiptera

description

Cyclopelta gibbosasp. nov., a new species of dinidorid bug is described from Thailand and compared with Cyclopelta obscura. It is the ninth Oriental species of the genus, and the fourth known species from Thailand. A key to all the Oriental species of the genus Cyclopelta is also provided. The type specimens are deposited with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, USA, and the Department of Biosystematics, Opole University, Poland.

https://doi.org/10.1080/00305316.2013.871820