Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand [electronic resource]

Volume 80, 1952

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Antestia Stål, 1864, Hemiptera Africana, 1: 200, 82: 1867. Öfvers. Vetensk Akad. Forhandl, 24: 514; 1876, Svensk. Vet. Handl, 14 (4): 95.

Genotype. Pentatoma maculata Dallas, 1851 = Antestia lymphata Kirkaldy, 1909 (new name)

Antestia orbona Kirkaldy

Pentatoma pallipes Dallas, 1851, List Hem. Ins. Brit. Mus.; 1: 239 (not of Westwood, 1837).

Antestia orbona Kirkaldy, 1909, Cat. Hem. (Het.), 1: 130. new name for P. pallipes Dallas, preoccupied.

(Material, collected near Hastings in March, 1950, and determined by Mr. A. Musgrave, of the Australian Museum, Sydney, was kindly supplied by Dr. W.

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Cottier, of the Plant Diseases Division, D.S.I.R., Auckland, who is preparing a detailed record of the species.)