Notes on Ptilomera agriodes (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerridae) from Eastern Ghats, India

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J. Deepa
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9999-6025
A. Narahari
M. Karuthapandi
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3799-4793
S. Jadhav
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3799-4793
C. Shiva Shankar
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8273-3985

Abstract

The present study reports an aquatic hemipteran species Ptilomera agriodes (Schmidt, 1926) distributed in different streams and waterfalls of Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana for the first time.


 

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