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Davranoglou L.-R. et al.: "The first species of Carayonia from New Guinea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae)".

Carayonia papuana sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae: Visayanocorini is described from New Guinea, representing the first record of the genus and the tribe from New Guinea.

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Cruces L., Livia C. & Vergara C.: "Redescription of the female of Euschistus (Euschistus) rubiginosus Dallas, 1851 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) and records of its crop hosts".

Euschistus (Euschistus) rubiginosus Dallas, 1851, was originally described from a female specimen collected in Brazil. Male specimens from Peru and Ecuador were described by Rolston in 1984. In the present study, we redescribe the female based on freshly reared individuals and specimens deposited in the Museum of Entomology “Klaus Raven Büller” that were collected from agricultural fields in Peru. The female genitalia are described here for the first time. In addition, we provide new data on its geographical distribution in Peru and crop hosts, contributing to a more comprehensive understanding of its pest status.

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Rémy G. D. et al.: "On the Origin of the Tingidae (Insecta, Heteroptera)".

The hypothesis of a Gondwanian origin of the family Tingidae (Insecta, Heteroptera) has been promoted and seems to be generally accepted by specialists. However, the area of emergence and diversification of the clade, South American or Australian, is still debated and cannot be solved without integrating Vianaidinae, a subfamily considered as the sister of all the other Tingidae, into phylogenetic and biogeographic analyses. This study aims to propose a molecular phylogeny integrating the three known Tingidae subfamilies for the first time, to date the emergence of the great clades using fossil calibrations and to test the origin of Tingidae. We tested the effect of different a priori parameters and sets of fossil calibrations. The uniform probability distribution gives older ages of the emergence of the main clades than the exponential and lognormal probability distributions. The emergence dates of the main clades differ slightly according to the number of calibrations with the exponential probability distribution, but significantly with the uniform probability distribution. We tested the hypothesis of the Gondwanian origin of Tingidae using DEC and DIVALIKE analysis. Tingidae may originate between the Neotropical and Afrotropical regions and spread out in Eastern and Northern regions mainly by long distance dispersal.

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