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Image of Maoricoris benefactor China 1933

Image of Maoricoris benefactor China 1933

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Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, suburb of Saint Johns, St Johns Bush Habitat: Dead standing tree trunk (probably not Pittosporum), infested with cossonine weevils. One Maoricoris was observed, active on trunk. When found, it was apparently holding, and feeding on, a dead adult Torostoma apicale. 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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