Five new genera of the subfamily Cylapinae (Insecta, Heteroptera, Miridae) from Australia.

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University of New South Wales, Evolution and Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Randwick, Sydney, Australia University of New South Wales Sydney Australia.

Published: January 2021

Cylapinae is one of the poorly studied groups within the megadiverse family Miridae (Insecta: Heteroptera). In this paper, five monotypic genera from Australia are described as new to science. Two of those taxa, and , and and are assigned to the tribe Cylapini. Three taxa, and , and and and are placed into the tribe Fulviini. Habitus images, SEMs of external characters, illustrations of male and female genitalia, and distribution maps are provided for each species where possible. The systematic position and possible relationships of the newly described taxa are discussed.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7854564PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1012.57172DOI Listing

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