Meschia brevirostris sp. nov., from New Caledonia (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea: Meschiidae)

Mallik B Malipatil; Adrian Masowski; Roland Dobosz; Artur Taszakowski

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5154.3.6

Meschia brevirostris sp. nov., from New Caledonia (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea: Meschiidae)

Zootaxa. 2022 Jun 15;5154(3):333-344. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5154.3.6.

Authors

Mallik B Malipatil¹, Adrian Masowski², Roland Dobosz³, Artur Taszakowski⁴

Affiliations

¹ Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, 5 Ring Road, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia. La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia.. mallik.malipatil@agriculture.vic.gov.au.
² Institute of Biology, Biotechnology and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Silesia in Katowice, Bankowa 9, 40-007 Katowice, Poland. user@mapress.com.
³ Department of Natural History, Upper Silesian Museum, Pl. Sobieskiego 2, 41-902 Bytom, Poland. user@mapress.com.
⁴ Institute of Biology, Biotechnology and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Silesia in Katowice, Bankowa 9, 40-007 Katowice, Poland. artur.taszakowski@us.edu.pl.

PMID: 36095618
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5154.3.6

Abstract

A new species, Meschia brevirostris sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea: Meschiidae), is described from New Caledonia. Photographs and SEM micrographs of the male and female habitus, genital structures and selected morphological structures are presented.

MeSH terms

Animals
Female
Heteroptera* / anatomy & histology
Male
Microscopy
New Caledonia