Mezira Amyot & Serville, 1843

Heiss, Ernst, 2012, Annotated catalogue of the flat bug family Aradidae Brullé, 1836 of Madagascar and adjacent islands (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), Zootaxa 3426 (1), pp. 45-63 : 55

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3426.1.3
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5484001
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scientific name	Mezira Amyot & Serville, 1843
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Genus Mezira Amyot & Serville, 1843 View in CoL View at ENA

Mezira Amyot & Serville, 1843: 305 View in CoL . Type species by monotypy: Mezira granulata Amyot & Serville, 1843 (junior secondary homonym of Aradus granulatus Say, 1832 ). Cuba [“ France meridionale” in error, see Bergroth, 1898].

Brachyrrhynchus usurpatus Bergroth, 1885: 182 (new name for Mezira granulata , synonymized by Bergroth, 1898: 188).

Brachyrhynchus abdominalis Stål, 1873: 144 . Cuba

Mezira abdominalis Usinger & Matsuda, 1959: 379 ; Kormilev & Froeschner, 1987: 147.

Ref.: Usinger & Matsuda, 1959 (syst.); Hoberlandt, 1957 (key); 1963 (key to bicoloured species); Kormilev & Froeschner, 1987: 147 (cat.)

References

Amyot, C. J. B. & Serville, J. G. A. (1843) Histoire naturelle des insects: Hemipteres. xxvi + 681 pp., 12 plates. Paris.

Bergroth, E. (1885) Uber die Gattung Mezira Amy. Et Serv. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung, 4, 181 - 182.

Bergroth, E. (1898) Note sur la Mezira granulata Am. - Serv. Revue Entomologique, 17, 188.

Hoberlandt, L. (1957) Aradoidea (Heteroptera) of Madagascar and Adjacent Islands. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, Supplementum 4, 109 pp.

Kormilev, N. A. & Froeschner, R. C. (1987) Flat Bugs of the World. A Synonymic List Heteroptera: Aradidae). Entomography 5, 245 pp.

Say, T. (1832) Descriptions of New Species of Heteropterous Hemiptera of North America. New Harmony, Indiana pp. 5 - 39

Stal, C. (1873) Enumeratio Aradidarum Extraeuropaearum. Konglige Svenska Vetenskaps Akademiens Forhandligar, 11 (2), 135 - 147.

Usinger, R. L. & Matsuda, R. (1959) Classification of the Aradidae (Hemiptera-Heteroptera). British Museum (Natural History), London, 410 pp.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hemiptera
Family	Aradidae
SubFamily	Mezirinae