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stephen_thorpe

Date

December 7, 2014

Description

Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, suburb of Saint Johns, University of Auckland Tamaki Campus.

Habitat: Pittosporum crassifolium Banks & Sol. ex A.Cunn., 1840. Dying/dead. Infested with Chaetoptelius mundulus. 1 male observed active on bark.

Identification: Maoricoris benefactor China, 1933.

REFERENCES
China, W.E. 1933: A new genus and species of Anthocoridae (Hemiptera) from New Zealand.
Annals and magazine of natural history (10), 11(64): 514-518. doi: 10.1080/00222933308673681 [See p. 516, and figs. a-d; original description (female, male)]

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