Discimita linnavuorii, new genus and species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Pentatominae), is described from the Central African Republic. The genus is superficially similar to representatives of the Neotropical subfamily Discocephalinae, but the labium, which arises anteriad of the imaginary line traversing head at anterior limit of the eyes, exludes such a possibility. The new genus exhibits an unusual mixture of morphological characters that are present in Sciocorini, Triplatygini and Myrocheini, and it is tentatively placed in the tribe Myrocheini.
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1 May 2016
Discimita linnavuorii, a new genus and species of Afrotropical Pentatominae resembling neotropical discocephalinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)
Petr Kment,
Thereza de A. Garbelotto
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Entomologica Americana
Vol. 122 • No. 1-2
2016
Vol. 122 • No. 1-2
2016
Afrotropical Region
Discocephalinae
Myrocheini
new genus
new species
Pentatominae