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Pycnoderes Guerin-Meneville

  • 1. Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Departamento de Entomologia (Full Professor retired), Avenida Peter Henry Rolfs, s / n, Viçosa, MG 36570 - 900, Brazil.
  • 2. Instituto Capixaba de Pesquisa, Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rural, Rua Afonso Sarlo, 160, Bento Ferreira, Vitória / ES 29052 - 010, Brazil.
  • 3. Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Bacharelando em Cooperativismo, Departamento de Economia Rural, Edifício Edson Potsch Magalhães-R. Purdue, Campus Universitário, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
  • 4. Instituto Capixaba de Pesquisa, Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rural (Incaper), Domingos Martins, ES, Brazil.

Description

Genus Pycnoderes Guérin-Menèville

Type species: Pycnoderes quadrimaculatus Guérin-Menèville, 1857:404. Monotypic.

Diagnosis. Species black and white, oval, or oblong in shape, with silvery spots on the hemelytra; pronotal disc greatly inflated; length of antennae about 3/4 of body length; hemelytra with a widely expanded and flattened embolium; and head, pronotum, and scutellum roughly punctate (Capriles 1969; Alayo 1974).

Notes

Published as part of Ferreira, Paulo Sérgio Fiuza, Martins, David Dos Santos, Ferreira, Luciano Santana Fiuza & Fornazier, Maurício José, 2024, Synopsis of Miridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in Atlantic Forest Dominion, Espírito Santo State, Brazil: keys, diagnoses, new species, plant associations, and geographic distribution. Part I: Bryocorinae, Cylapinae and Deraeocorinae., pp. 201-254 in Zootaxa 5468 (2) on page 224, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5468.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/11615431

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Guerin-Meneville
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Miridae
Genus
Pycnoderes
Taxon rank
genus

References

  • Guerin-Meneville, F. E. (1857) Order de Hemipteres, Latr. Premiere section. Heteropteres Latr. In: De la Sagra, M. R. (Ed.), Histoire physique, politique et naturelle de l'Ile de Cuba. Vol. 7. A. Bertrand, Paris, pp. 359 - 424.
  • Capriles, J. M. (1969) The Miridae of Puerto Rico (Insecta, Hemiptera). Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Paper, 45, 1 - 34.
  • Alayo, D. P. (1974) Los Hemipteros de Cuba. Parte XIII. Familia Miridae. Torreia, 32, 1 - 41.