| morphological, biogeographical and molecular evidence of carpocoris mediterraneus as a valid species (hemiptera: pentatomidae). | carpocoris mediterraneus tamanini, 1958, synonymized with carpocoris fuscispinus (boheman, 1851) by ribes et al. (2007), is restored to the species level. the shape of the pronotum is a good diagnostic character to distinguish the two species. the existence of two valid species is supported by geographical distribution patterns in western europe: mediterranean-atlantic for c. mediterraneus, and continental for c. fuscispinus. in france and spain, in some areas, the two species are found in sympa ... | 2013 | 24699602 |