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Souza L.F.R.D., Ferreira A.F. & Fernandes J.A.M.: "Description of Apheledessa gen. nov. (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Edessinae) with two new species from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest".

he new genus Apheledessa gen. nov., described here, comprises two new species: Apheledessa absens sp. nov. and Apheledessa inopia sp. nov. The genus is diagnosed based on a unique combination of characters, including well-developed, subrectangular, dorsoventrally flattened humeral angles, and a metasternal process with the anterior portion medially perforated and posteriorly sloping. Both species occur in the Atlantic Forest biome, with records from mountainous areas of the states of Rio de Janeiro and Santa Catarina, Brazil. Diagnoses, descriptions, and a distribution map are provided. Illustrations of the habitus in dorsal and ventral views, as well as of the male pygophore and female genital plates, are also provided.

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Kondorosy E. & Kovács S.: "A peculiar new Oriental genus of Drymini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Rhyparochromidae)".

Formidrymus malayus, gen. et sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Rhyparochromidae: Rhyparochrominae: Drymini) is described based upon specimens from Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. The systematic position of the genus and the potentially related genera are discussed, especially the superficially similar Fontejanus Breddin, 1903, a rhyparochromine genus of uncertain tribal placement.

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Chen Z. et al.: "Descriptions of two new species of the enigmatic Neotropical tribe Chryxini (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Reduviidae) and a key to genera and species with single membrane cell".

The Chryxini Champion, 1898, previously recognized as a subfamily of the Reduviidae Latreille, 1807, is now placed in the Reduviinae Latreille, 1807 as a tribe to accommodate five genera and 18 species from the Neotropical Region. Many species of the Chryxini are rarely encountered in the field as well as in museum collections, and their systematics, morphology, and ecology are still poorly understood. In the present study, two new species of the Chryxini, Chryxus willemsei Chen, Hartong & Cai, n. sp. (from Commewijne, Suriname) and Wygodzinskyella gilsantanai Chen, Li & Cai, n. sp. (from Río Grande do Sul, Brazil), are described and illustrated. The Chryxus genus group is proposed to include Chryxus Champion, 1898, Lentia Wygodzinsky, 1946, Petasolentia Weirauch, 2012, and Wygodzinskyella Usinger, 1952; this genus group is characterized by the tuft of long setae on the mesopleuron and the single membrane cell on the hemelytron; other related morphological characters are also discussed. An identification key to the genera and species of the Chryxus group is provided. The Chryxini and Chryxus are newly recorded from Suriname.

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