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DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE NEW SPECIES OF MIRIDAE FROM THE PRAIRIE PROVINCES AND A NEW RECORD OF EUROPEAN PHYLINI IN THE NEARCTIC REGION (HETEROPTERA)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Leonard A. Kelton
Affiliation:
Biosystematics Research Institute, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa K1A 0C6

Abstract

Three new species of Miridae described are: Coquillettia albertae from Alberta, Megalopsallus femoralis from Alberta and Saskatchewan, and Deraeocoris rubripes from Manitoba. Tytthus pygmaeus (Zett.) is now known to be Holarctic in distribution. Adults are illustrated.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1980

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