Sulawesifulvius
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Family: | Miridae |
| Subfamily: | Cylapinae |
| Genus: | Sulawesifulvius Gorczyca , Chérot & Štys, 2004 |
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Sulawesifulvius is a genus of true bugs in the family Miridae. The genus was described in 2004 based on a specimens collected by fogging of the forest canopy in Sulawesi. It was found to be unlike any other members in the subfamily Cylapinae. The type species was named in honour of entomologist Randall T. Schuh. Almost nothing is known of the biology of the species.[1]
Sulawesifulvius looks similar to Peritropis but is more flattened with tubercles on the vertex and frons, a short beak and prominent angles in fronts of the pronotum (top of thorax). The genus was monotypic until a second species was described in 2014 from Yinggeling in the Hainan Province of China[2] and a third from southern India in 2015.[3]
References
- ↑ Gorczyca, J., F. Cherot, and P. Stys (2004). "A remarkable new genus of Cylapinae from Sulawesi (Heteroptera: Miridae)". Zootaxa 499: 1–11.
- ↑ Mu,Yi-Ran & Guo-Qing Liu (2014). "Taxonomic Notes on the Genus Sulawesifulvius Gorczyca, Cherot & Stys, 2004 (Hemiptera: Miridae: Cylapinae) with Description of One New Species". Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society (4): 327–332. doi:10.2317/JKES130105.
- ↑ Yeswanth H.M., Chérot Frédéric (2015). "A new species of the genus Sulawesifulvius Gorczyca, Chérot, & Štys, 2004 (Insecta, Heteroptera, Miridae, Cylapinae) from India". ZooKeys 475: 89–95. doi:10.3897/zookeys.475.8349.
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