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New Species of Liocoris from North America (Hemiptera: Miridae)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Leonard A. Kelton
Affiliation:
Systematic Entomology Unit, Entomology Division, Ottawa, Canada

Extract

The extensive literature on the “lygus” bugs of economic importance in North America deals with members of the genus Liocoris Fieber (Kelton, 1955). In this paper four new species that formerly were misidentified as other species of the genus Lygus Hahn are described.

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Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1955

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