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Aphelocheirus (Aphelocheirus) narmadaensis sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Nepomorpha: Aphelocheiridae) from Madhya Pradesh, India
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November 2008

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G. Thirumalai

Aphelocheirus (Aphelocheirus) narmadaensis sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Aphelocheiridae) is described and illustrated from Central India (Madhya Pradesh). A list of congeners so far known from India and their distributional records are provided.

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... The family Aphelocheiridae is distributed exclusively in the Old World and reaches its greatest species richness in the Oriental Region (Sites et al, 2011). It is represented by a single genus Aphelocheirus, with 98 species described in the world (Liu & Zheng, 1994, 2000Liu & Ding, 2005a, 2005bNieser & Millán, 1989;Nieser & Chen, 1991, 2004Polhemus, 1994Polhemus, , 2013Sites, 2005;Sites et al, 2011;Thirumalai, 2007Thirumalai, , 2008Zettel, 1993Zettel, , 1998Zettel, , 1999aZettel, , 1999bZettel, , 2000Zettel, , 2001Zettel, , 2003Zettel, , 2012Zettel et al, 2008;Zettel & Tran, 2009;Zettel & Pangantihon, 2010). Biological knowledge of Aphelocheiridae is mostly based on the European species Aphelocheirus aestivalis (Fabricius, 1794), which feeds on the larvae of chironomid diptera, hydropsychid trichoptera and various molluscs belonging to the genera Viviparus, Cyclas and Pisidium (Thorpe, 1965). ...

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Two new species and three new records of the genus Aphelocheirus (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Aphelocheiridae) from China
Aphelocheirus (Aphelocheirus) narmadaensis sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Nepomorpha: Aphelocheiridae) from Madhya Pradesh, India
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