Neopoliocoris, Zhang, Dao-Wei & Chen, Jing, 2015

Zhang, Dao-Wei & Chen, Jing, 2015, New substitute name for the genus Poliocoris Slater, 1994 (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Rhyparochromidae), ZooKeys 478, pp. 147-148 : 148

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.478.9063

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:40A80A09-7C50-4C47-A360-D1DFA3DA0599

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/2DD688FB-0E8D-48CF-5C72-A07AC16AFE8E

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scientific name

Neopoliocoris
status

nom. n.

Taxon classification Animalia Hemiptera Rhyparochromidae

Genus Neopoliocoris View in CoL nom. n.

Poliocoris Slater 1994: 120 ( Hemiptera : Heteroptera: Rhyparochromidae ). Preoccupied by Poliocoris Kirkaldy 1910: 130 ( Hemiptera : Heteroptera: Pentatomidae ).

Type species.

Poliocoris umbrosus Slater, 1994.

Distribution.

South Africa.

Etymology.

From the preexisting name Poliocoris and the prefix “Neo-” from the Greek “neos”, meaning new; gender masculine.