Neaitkenia monteithi
| Neaitkenia monteithi | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Family: | Miridae |
| Genus: | Neaitkenia |
| Species: | N. monteithi
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| Binomial name | |
| Neaitkenia monteithi | |
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
- ^ a b "Neaitkenia monteithi (Carvalho & Gross, 1982)". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
- ^ a b "Species Neaitkenia monteithi Carvalho & Gross, 1982". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Government. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.