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Neaitkenia monteithi

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Neaitkenia monteithi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Miridae
Genus: Neaitkenia
Species:
N. monteithi
Binomial name
Neaitkenia monteithi
(Carvalho & Gross, 1982)[1]

Neaitkenia monteithi is a species of plant bug in the family Miridae.[1]

It was first described in 1982 as Aitkenia monteithi by José Carvalho and Gordon Gross,[2][3] but in 2011, Katrina Menard and Randall Schuh transferred it to the new genus, Neaitkenia to give its current name.[2][4] This bug imitates an ant.[3]

The species epithet honours the Australian entomologist Geoff Monteith.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Neaitkenia monteithi (Carvalho & Gross, 1982)". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Species Neaitkenia monteithi Carvalho & Gross, 1982". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Government. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  3. ^ a b c JCM Carvalho; GF Gross (1982). "Australian ant-mimetic Miridae (Hemiptera : Heteroptera). I. The Leucophoroptera group of the subfamily Phylinae". Australian Journal of Zoology. Supplementary Series. 30 (86): 1-75 [42]. doi:10.1071/AJZS086. ISSN 0310-9089. Wikidata Q54658123.
  4. ^ Katrina L. Menard; Randall T. Schuh (2011). "Revision of Leucophoropterini: diagnoses, key to genera, redescription of the Australian fauna, and descriptions of new Indo-Pacific genera and species (Insecta: Hemiptera: Miridae)" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 361: 1–159. ISSN 0003-0090. Wikidata Q125403904.