New Zealand Journal of Zoology abstracts

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Identity of Lygus buchanani Poppius (Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirini): a deletion from the New Zealand fauna

MICHAEL D. SCHWARTZ¹

c/o Biological Resources Program
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Ottawa
Ontario, Canada K1A OC6

A. C. EYLES²

30 Mahana Road
Paraparaumu Beach, New Zealand

¹ Research Associate, Department of Entomology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York

² Research Associate, New Zealand Arthropod Collection, Landcare Research, Auckland

Abstract  Lygus buchanani Poppius, 1914 and Lygus udonis Matsumura, 1917 are proposed as junior subjective synonyms of Orthops scutellatus Uhler, 1877, which is diagnosed and redescribed. Lygus buchanani was originally described from New Zealand in error, and is to be deleted from the New Zealand fauna.

Keywords  Hemiptera; Heteroptera; Miridae; Mirinae; Mirini; Lygus; Orthops; taxonomic characters

Z98038
Received 16 October 1998; accepted 12 February 1999

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