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A revision of the genus Pinthaeus (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)
Qing Zhao1, Dávid Rédei, Wenjun Bu
1Institute of Entomology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, 94 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300071, China.
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|June 5, 2015
Abstract:
The genus Pinthaeus Stål, 1868 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Asopinae) is revised, a single species is recog nized, redescribed, and illustrated. The following new synonymy is proposed: Pinthaeus sanguinipes (Fabricius, 1781): P. hunieralis Horváth, 1911, syn. nov. A lectotype is designated for P. sanguinipes. The geographic distribution and un usual intraspecific variability of P. sanguinipes is discussed.

