Pachymeroceroides Carvalho & Gomes
Authors/Creators
- 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 Pachymeroceroides Carvalho & Gomes
Pachymeroceroides Carvalho & Gomes, 1971 C:468 (original designation, new genus, description, and discussion); Uceli et al. 2009 (review). Type species: Pachymeroceroides bromeliae (Carvalho, 1946). New combination.
Diagnosis. Bright metallic in general, with dense, fine, and erect pilosity primarily on the pronotum. Head vertical; eyes contiguous with anterior margin of pronotum; antennal segment II thickened towards the apex; and labium reaching the posterior coxae. Pronotum finely punctate; large calli with a fossa on the inferior margin along the lateral margin of pronotum. Scutellum with a basal depression. On males, the hemelytra with a large rounded and protruding fossa in the exocorium’s median region; cuneus internally rounded; and membrane vein with fine and short pilosity (Carvalho and Gomes 1971).
Remarks. The genus Pachymeroceroides was created by Carvalho & Gomes (1971C) to include the only species, Eurycipitia bromelia Carvalho, 1946, based on 11 males and 20 females from Brazil: Amazonas, Rio de Janeiro (Jacarepaguá, restinga de Guaratiba) e São Paulo (Uceli et al. 2009).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Carvalho & Gomes
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Family
- Miridae
- Genus
- Pachymeroceroides
- Taxon rank
- genus
References
- Uceli, L. F., Ferreira, P. S. F. & Pirovani, V. D. (2009) Review of Pachymeroceroides genus with the description of a new species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Bryocorinae). Zootaxa, 2174 (1), 37 - 44. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2174.1.4
- Carvalho, J. C. M. (1946) Mirideos neotropicais, XXIII: Um genero e tres especies novas colecionada em Araceae e Bromeliacea (Hemiptera). Boletim do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, New Series, Zoology, 61, 1 - 6.