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Atracodes sanctaeluciae Fennah 1965

  • 1. University of Delaware, Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology, 250 Townsend Hall, Newark, DE 19716 - 2160, USA.

Description

Atracodes sanctaeluciae Fennah, 1965

Type locality. Castries, St. Lucia

Synoptic diagnosis. Atracodes sanctaeluciae can be distinguished from congeners by: patterning similar to A. indutus, covered in a grayish-white pruinescence; vertex 1.5 times longer than width between eyes (Fennah 1965, fig. 99); hind tibia with 3 lateral teeth, apical spinulation 6-5-2; phallothecal complex stout (Fennah 1965, fig. 100), curved upward bearing three pairs of elongated slender processes, 2 subapical pairs and 1 pair from the ventrolateral subapical margin projecting retrorsely, strongly curving dorsad. Anal tube in lateral view narrow, deflexed in distal third (Fennah 1965).

Plant associations. None.

Distribution. St. Lucia.

Material examined. HOLOTYPE: Type // ST. LUCIA / Castries / 4.XI.1935 / H.E.Box // Atracodes / sanctaeluciae / det. RGFennah Fenn. // NHMUK015981665 (BMNH, male).

Notes

Published as part of Levia, Nathaniel N. & Bartlett, Charles R., 2025, A review of the genera Atracodes Melichar and Pseudoflatoides Metcalf (Hemiptera: Flatidae: Flatoidinae) from the Caribbean region, pp. 231-255 in Zootaxa 5590 (2) on page 252, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5590.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/14953032

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Biodiversity

Collection code
BMNH
Event date
1935-11-04
Verbatim event date
1935-11-04
Scientific name authorship
Fennah
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Flatidae
Genus
Atracodes
Species
sanctaeluciae
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Atracodes sanctaeluciae Fennah, 1965 sec. Levia & Bartlett, 2025