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<emphasis id="0A9DEAFFFFD7F85AFF4859C3EFEEF7A1" bold="true" box="[151,396,1501,1527]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="32">Poecilocoris druraei</emphasis>
(
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)
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<emphasis id="0A9DEAFFFFD7F85AFF485A36EF50F469" box="[151,306,1576,1599]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="32">Cimex druraei</emphasis>
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. For unnamed species in
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(s):
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; lost?
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<emphasis id="0A9DEAFFFFD7F85AFF485A54EF03F437" box="[151,353,1610,1633]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="32">Poecilocoris heissi</emphasis>
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.
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(Ψ):
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, Burahbise; NHMUK.
<emphasis id="0A9DEAFFFFD7F85AFB6D5A57EB01F437" bold="true" box="[1202,1379,1609,1633]" pageId="7" pageNumber="32">New synonymy.</emphasis>
For a complete list of synonyms and a bibliography of
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<emphasis id="0A9DEAFFFFD7F85AFD3F5A74ED2DF4D7" box="[736,847,1642,1665]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="32">C. druraei</emphasis>
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, see
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.
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<emphasis id="0A9DEAFFFFD7F85AFF485AACEF4BF49A" bold="true" box="[151,297,1714,1740]" pageId="7" pageNumber="32">Discussion.</emphasis>
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proposed the name
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<emphasis id="0A9DEAFFFFD7F85AFD245AADEDCDF49A" box="[763,943,1715,1740]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="32">Cimex druraei</emphasis>
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for an unnamed scutellerid from
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described and illustrated by
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. The
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(s) are, by indication (Article 12.2.7 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, 4th edition, 1999), the specimen(s) examined and figured by
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, but apparently they are lost. A male from “Assam: Sylhet,” deposited in the BMNH, was listed and redescribed by
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as the
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of
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<emphasis id="0A9DEAFFFFD7F85AFC275B56EA0EF537" box="[1016,1132,1864,1889]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="32">P. druraei</emphasis>
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. However, this specimen, as well as the additional specimens listed by these authors, is definitely not a
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, since they are not from the patria typica.
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<emphasis id="0A9DEAFFFFD7F85AFEE85B8DEC48F5FA" box="[311,554,1939,1964]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="32">Poecilocoris druraei</emphasis>
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was redescribed by several authors (see the bibliography presented by
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), and there is an overall agreement about its identity in the literature. Consequently there is no doubt that the specimens figured by
<bibRefCitation id="5C784B1CFFD8F855FD805C86EB7DF2E4" author="Ahmad" box="[607,1311,152,178]" pageId="8" pageNumber="33" refString="Ahmad, I. &amp; Kamaluddin, S. (1982) A revision of the genus Poecilocoris Dallas (Pentatomoidea: Scutelleridae) from Indo-Pakistan Subcontinent with descriptions of three new species. Oriental Insects, 16, 259 - 295." type="journal article" year="1982">Ahmad &amp; Kamaluddin (1982: 270 and 272, figs. 3342)</bibRefCitation>
are not
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<emphasis id="0A9DEAFFFFD8F855FA595C86EE8DF280" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="33">P. druraei</emphasis>
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.
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As a consequence of the misidentification of
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<emphasis id="0A9DEAFFFFD8F855FD015CFCED36F2AD" box="[734,852,226,251]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="33">P. druraei</emphasis>
,
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treated the single female of
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<emphasis id="0A9DEAFFFFD8F855FECC5D16EFEEF377" box="[275,396,264,289]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="33">P. druraei</emphasis>
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which was available to them as representing an undescribed species, and described it under the name
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<emphasis id="0A9DEAFFFFD8F855FE805D33EFA7F310" box="[351,453,301,326]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="33">P. heissi</emphasis>
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. According to the original description, the
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of
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is deposited in NHMUK, but we were informed by a colleague from the respective institution that currently it cannot be found there (R. Hussain,
<emphasis id="0A9DEAFFFFD8F855FE645D66EC2AF3C7" box="[443,584,376,401]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="33">pers. comm.</emphasis>
). However, based on the original description and illustration, the identity of
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<emphasis id="0A9DEAFFFFD8F855FF685D83EF75F3E0" box="[183,279,413,438]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="33">P. heissi</emphasis>
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is clear, and this species is hereby placed in the synonymy of
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<emphasis id="0A9DEAFFFFD8F855FC295D83EA3DF3E0" box="[1014,1119,413,438]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="33">P. duraei</emphasis>
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. The following characters, readily recognizable in Ahmad &amp; Kamaluddins figures of
<emphasis id="0A9DEAFFFFD8F855FC965DDCEDC6F38D" box="[841,932,450,475]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="33">P. h e i s s i</emphasis>
, are diagnostic for
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<emphasis id="0A9DEAFFFFD8F855FB545DDCEB62F38D" box="[1163,1280,450,475]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="33">P. druraei</emphasis>
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: anterior and anterolateral margins of pronotum concolorous with disk, never black; metathoracic scent gland ostiole associated with long, narrow, almost straight peritreme which is strongly curved anteriad apically; posterior margin of sternite VII of female biconcave, broadly projecting posteriad medially; portion of distal duct of spermatheca proximad of proximal flange short, strongly thickened, partly sclerotized.
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