Gonocerus punctiger Dallas which remained confused with Homoeocerus minax Walker, a serious pest of rice in East Asia as Cletus punctiger is redescribed here with reference to its ignored characters of metathoracic scent, auricles and male genitalia including inflated aedeagus and female genitalia including spermatheca. In this light its cladistic relationships are also briefly discussed.
Navaid Rabi . (2005) REDESCRIPTION OF A GONOCERINE SQUASH BUG OF UTMOST ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE AND CONFUSED TAXONOMIC STATUS CLETUS PUNCTIGER (DALLAS) FORM MUREE HILL (HEMIPTERA:HETEROPTERA) AND ITS CLADISTIC RELATIONSHIPS, , Volume 2, Issue 3.
