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Melucha quadrivittis 
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, 1862
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Fig. 8
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, 1862: 276, stat. restit.
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: 
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, 1870: 133 (synonymized with 
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)
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="15">Type material examined.</paragraph>
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: male (NHRS).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="15">Distribution.</paragraph>
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Mexico, Oaxaca, Veracruz, Atoyac and Orizaba (
<bibRefCitation author="Stal, C" journalOrPublisher="Stettin Entomologische Zeitung" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" pagination="273 - 281" title="Hemiptera mexicana enumeravit speciesque novas descripsit" volume="23" year="1862">
<normalizedToken originalValue="Stål">Stal</normalizedToken>
1862
</bibRefCitation>
, 
<bibRefCitation author="Walker, F" journalOrPublisher="London" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" pagination="1 - 211" title="Catalogue of the specimens of Hemiptera-Heteroptera in the collection of the British Museum" year="1871">Walker 1871</bibRefCitation>
, 
<bibRefCitation author="Distant, WL" journalOrPublisher="Biologia Centrali-Americana, London" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" title="Insecta Rhynchota. Hemiptera-Heteroptera" year="1881 - 1893">Distant 1893</bibRefCitation>
, 
<bibRefCitation author="Packauskas, R" journalOrPublisher="Fort Hays Studies (Fourth Series)" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" pagination="1 - 270" title="Catalog of the Coreidae, or leaf-footed bugs of the New World" volume="5" year="2010">Packauskas 2010</bibRefCitation>
).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="15">Material examined.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="15">
New records. Belize: 1 female, Grano de Oro, Chiquibul Forest Reserve, 4-7-IV-1995, T. King, A. Howe (UNAM). Costa Rica: 4 males, 4 females, Provincia Guanacaste, estacion Las pailas, P. N. Rincon de la Vieja, 800 m, 27-VII-12-X-1992, 15-V-11-VI-1993, 8-26-V-1994, C. Cano, D. Garcia, K. E. Taylor (INBIO); 3 males, 3 females, Provincia Guanacaste, Estacion Santa Rosa, P. N. Santa Rosa, 300 m, VIII-1980, VII-1989, II-1992, (without collector) (INBIO); 5 females, Provincia Puntarenas, Fca. Cafrosa, Estacion Las Mellizas, P. N. Amistad, 1300 m, X-1989, 7-XII-1989, 17-I-1990, M. Ramirez, G. Mora (INBIO). Honduras: 1 male, Liberia, 6-IX-1984, C. W. 
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(UNAM); 1 female, Olancho, La Muralla, 24-V-1995, R. Morris (UGAG); 1 male, Copan, 19 km SW Santa Rosa de Copan, 8-X-1993, R. Turnbow (UGAG); 1 female, Cedros, Francisco Morazan, 2-XII-1976 (UMSP). Mexico: 1 female, Campeche, 6 mi N de Xpujil, Chicana Ruins, 27-VII-1980, Schaffner, Weaber (TAMU); 1 male, 13.8 mi E Escarcega, 26-27-VII-1980, Schaffner, Weaber (TAMU). 1 female, Chiapas, 2 mi E Rizo de Oro, 2900', 1-VIII-1974, C. W. and L. 
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and Marshall (UNAM); 2 males, Chiapas, Municipio de Ocozocoautla, Reserva El Ocote, 2 km de A. Obregon, 14-IV-1994, O. Gomez (UNAM); 1 female, Chiapas, Bonampak, 21-V-1980, J. Bueno (UNAM); 1 female, Chiapas, Reserva El Ocote, 2-10-XII-1993, G. Ortega-Leon, E. Barrera and A. Casasola (UNAM); 1 male, Chiapas, Villa Corzo, 2-XI-1983, J. Morales (UNAM); 1 male, Nuevo Leon, Guadalupe, X-1980, A. Ortiz (UNAM); 2 females, Nuevo Leon, Rayones, 17-IV-1974, Patton (UNAM); 1 female, Oaxaca, Tuxtepec, 24-IX-1947 (UNAM); 1 male, Oaxaca, 2 mi N Candelaria Loxicha, 17-VII-1974, Clark, Schaffner (TAMU); 2 males, 1 female, Quintana Roo, X-Can Nuevo, 17-IX-1983, E. Welling (UNAM); 1 female, Quintana Roo, 8 mi N Felipe Carrillo Puerto, 1-VII-1970, R. E. Beer (UNAM); 1 female, Quintana Roo, 26 km SE Valle Hermoso, 22-VI-1989, A. Cadena, L. Cervantes (UNAM); 1 male, Quintana Roo, 3-VIII-1981, E. Pech (UNAM); 1 female, Quintana Roo, 2 km NE El Ramonal, 10-IX-1983, O. Canul (UNAM); 1 female, Quintana Roo, Puerto Morelos, 11-VIII-1982, V. Hernandez (UNAM); 1 female, San Luis Potosi, El Salto, IX-1959, D. Pelaez (UNAM). 1 male, Tabasco, Campo Experimental CSAT, Cardenas, 13-IX-1976, J. Rivera (UNAM). 1 male, 1 female, Tamaulipas, Ciudad Victoria, 17-XI-1977, H. Brailovsky (UNAM); 1 male, Tamaulipas, Tula, km 20 Tula-Ocampo, Colonia Guadalupe, 446 m, 
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N
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, 12-V-2007, H. Brailovsky, E. Barrera and L. Cervantes-Peredo (UNAM). 7 males, 7 females, Veracruz, 
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de 
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Tropical Los Tuxtlas, III-1978, 20-XII-1984, 25-VIII-1998, 27-X-4-XI-1988, 15-27-VI-1989, 21-VII-1989, 6-IX-1989, 30-X-2007, H. Brailovsky, E. Gonzalez, E. Mejorada, H. Rojas, J. L. Colin and R. 
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(UNAM). Nicaragua: 1 male, Chinaniloga, Volcan Casita, 10-VI-1985, Maes, Jolivet (MELN); 1 female, Matagalpa, Selva Negra, 1375 m, 28-XII-1991, A. E. Mahler (UNAM). Panama: 1 male, Chiriqui, Chiriquicito, 16-V-1996, R. Turnbow (UGAG); 1 male, Panama Prov., Cerro Campana, 11-IX-1998, Gillogly, Stockwell (TAMU).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="15">Taxonomy.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="15">
<bibRefCitation author="Burmeister, H" journalOrPublisher="T. Enslin., Berlin" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" title="Handbuch der Entomologie" year="1835">Burmeister (1835)</bibRefCitation>
described 
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from Brazil, and 
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Stål">Stal</normalizedToken>
(1862)
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from Mexico. Dallas (1852) recorded 
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from Colombia and years later 
<bibRefCitation author="Stal, C" journalOrPublisher="Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Foerhandlingar" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" pagination="1 - 232" title="Enumeratio Hemipterorum" volume="9" year="1870">
<normalizedToken originalValue="Stål">Stal</normalizedToken>
(1870)
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synonymized 
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under 
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and recorded this species from Mexico, Colombia (Nova Granada), Brazil and Paraguay. 
<bibRefCitation author="Packauskas, R" journalOrPublisher="Fort Hays Studies (Fourth Series)" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" pagination="1 - 270" title="Catalog of the Coreidae, or leaf-footed bugs of the New World" volume="5" year="2010">Packauskas (2010)</bibRefCitation>
summarized the known information and cited 
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s. lato from Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Paraguay. The type material of 
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was examined and compared with the original description of 
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, as well as with more than 110 specimens. Two different species were clearly recognized, therefore 
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was resurrected here as valid species.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="15">Both species share the following characters: total body length over 23.00 mm; anterolateral borders of pronotum coarsely serrate; pronotal disk yellow with four longitudinal dark lines; the humeral angles prominent, laterally expanded; and antennal segments II and III pale orange to yellowish orange.</paragraph>
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In 
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the dorsal surface of hind femur is armed with two rows of black nodules and tubercles; it is distributed from Mexico to Panama (Fig. 8). In 
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the dorsal surface of hind femur is smooth. It is distributed from Colombia to Paraguay, including Bolivia and Brazil (Fig. 9).
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Key to the known species of 
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Amyot &amp; Serville, 1843
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<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Anterolateral borders of pronotum very coarsely serrate; total length of body longer than 23.00 mm</td>
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<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">-</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Anterolateral borders of pronotum smooth or finely serrate; total length of body shorter than 20.00 mm</td>
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<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">2</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Antennal segments II and III dark reddish-brown to black</td>
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<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">-</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Antennal segments II and III pale orange to pale yellowish orange</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">4</td>
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<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">3</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Pronotal disk dark reddish-brown; dorsal surface of hind femora dark reddish- brown and ventral surface dull orange</td>
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Coreidae" genus="Melucha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melucha bicolor" order="Hemiptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bicolor">Melucha bicolor</taxonomicName>
Distant, 1892
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<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Pronotal disk yellow with four longitudinal dark brown lines; hind femora yellow with ventral spines black (Fig. 12)</td>
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Coreidae" genus="Melucha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melucha perampla" order="Hemiptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="perampla">Melucha perampla</taxonomicName>
sp. n.
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<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">4</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Pronotal disk reddish-brown, with a single longitudinal median dark line; humeral angles of pronotum prominent, laterally expanded, and apically sharply pointed (Fig. 11)</td>
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Coreidae" genus="Melucha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melucha grandicula" order="Hemiptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="grandicula">Melucha grandicula</taxonomicName>
sp. n.
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<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Pronotal disk yellow with four longitudinal dark lines; humeral angles of pronotum prominent, laterally expanded, and apically blunt to nodulose</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">5</td>
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<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">5</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Dorsal surface of hind femur armed with two rows of black nodules and tubercles (Fig. 8)</td>
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, 1862
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<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Dorsal surface of hind femur smooth (Fig. 9)</td>
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(Burmeister, 1835)
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<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">6</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Anterolateral borders of pronotum uniformly crenulate; humeral angles laterally expanded, apically sharply pointed</td>
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<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">-</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Anterolateral borders of pronotum smooth; humeral angles obtuse, not exposed, with or without short spine directed backward</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">10</td>
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<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Antennal segments I to III entirely shiny orange; anterolateral borders of pronotum shiny orange (Fig. 7)</td>
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(Fabricius, 1803)
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</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="15">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">-</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Antennal segments I to III predominantly or entirely black or dark reddish brown; anterolateral borders of pronotum black</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">8</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="15">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">8</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Antennal segment IV dark brown with basal third (except basal joint) yellow (Fig. 1)</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Coreidae" genus="Melucha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melucha aculeata" order="Hemiptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="aculeata">Melucha aculeata</taxonomicName>
Montandon, 1895
</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="15">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">-</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Antennal segment IV entirely dark brown to black</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">9</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="15">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">9</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Hemelytral membrane brassy with basal third black; antennal segment III bicolorous (Fig. 2)</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Coreidae" genus="Melucha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melucha biolleyi" order="Hemiptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="biolleyi">Melucha biolleyi</taxonomicName>
Distant, 1900
</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="15">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">-</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Hemelytral membrane uniformly brassy, without black spot basally; antennal segment III entirely black (Fig. 4)</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Coreidae" genus="Melucha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melucha acutispina" order="Hemiptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="acutispina">Melucha acutispina</taxonomicName>
Breddin, 1903
</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="15">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">10</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Antennal segment IV dark brown with basal third (except basal joint) yellow (Fig. 3)</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Coreidae" genus="Melucha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melucha dilatata" order="Hemiptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="dilatata">Melucha dilatata</taxonomicName>
(Fabricius, 1798)
</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="15">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">-</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Antennal segment IV entirely dark brown or dark reddish brown or shiny reddish orange</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">11</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="15">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">11</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Antennal segments I to III shiny orange to shiny reddish brown; pronotal disk shiny yellow with three black to reddish-bown longitudinal stripes (Fig. 10)</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Coreidae" genus="Melucha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melucha quinquelineata" order="Hemiptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="quinquelineata">Melucha quinquelineata</taxonomicName>
<normalizedToken originalValue="Stål">Stal</normalizedToken>
, 1865
</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="15">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">-</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Antennal segments I to III never shiny orange; pronotal disk yellow with one black to reddish brown longitudinal stripe running mesially</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">12</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="15">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">12</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Antennal segments II and III reddish-brown with basal joint yellow (Fig. 5)</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Coreidae" genus="Melucha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melucha chapadana" order="Hemiptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="chapadana">Melucha chapadana</taxonomicName>
Brailovsky, 1993
</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="15">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">-</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Antennal segments II and III entirely reddish-brown (Fig. 6)</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Coreidae" genus="Melucha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melucha lineatella" order="Hemiptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="lineatella">Melucha lineatella</taxonomicName>
(Fabricius, 1798)
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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