Phytocoris grandis Blanchard 1844
Authors/Creators
- 1. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), CCT La Plata, La Plata (Argentina) and División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s / n, B 1900 FWA, La Plata, Buenos Aires (Argentina) ceciliamelo @ fcnym. unlp. edu. ar; pdellape @ fcnym. unlp. edu. ar
Description
Phytocoris grandis Blanchard, 1844
(Fig. 9 E-G)
Phytocoris grandis Blanchard, 1844: 220, pl. 30, fig. 7.
TYPE SPECIMENS. — Lectotype, here designated. Argentina • 1 ♂; 8387 34; Phytocoris grandis; Type; Callichila grandis (Blanchard) J. C. M. Carvalho det. 1951; MNHN-EH-EH30827. Paralectotypes. Argentina • 2 ♂; 3 ♀; 8387 34 [one ♀ bearing the number 146].
DISTRIBUTION GIVEN BY BLANCHARD. — Corrientes [Argentina].
D’ORBIGNY’S CATALOGUE NOTES. — Corrientes Province. During the months of November at the edge of the woods in sandy places near Itaty on the stems of a tree with white flowers (see Phanerogames No…..[number missing in his notes]). It lives in groups, in the living state, it is beautiful black with scarlet red thorax[?].
VALID NAME. — Callichilella grandis (Blanchard, 1844) (Carvalho 1954).
REMARKS
Carvalho (1952) mentioned he found the specimen here selected as lectotype, and added the ‘type’ label, but ignoring the other specimens we found in the collection. The species was re-described by Carvalho & Fontes (1972) based on non-type specimens.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Blanchard
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Family
- Miridae
- Genus
- Phytocoris
- Species
- grandis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Phytocoris grandis Blanchard, 1844 sec. Melo & Dellapé, 2026
References
- CARVALHO J. C. M. 1954. - Neotropical Miridae, LXXVII: Miscellaneous observations in some European Museums (Hemiptera). Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias 26 (3 - 4): 423-427.
- CARVALHO J. C. M. 1952. - Neotropical Miridae. XLVII. - Notes on the Blanchard, Spinola and Signoret types in the Paris Museum. Revue francaise d'Entomologie 19: 181-188.
- CARVALHO J. C. M. & FONTES A. V. 1972. - Mirideos neotropicais, CXLVIII: Redescricao de Callichilella grandis (Blanchard) e de Resthenia gaucha Carvalho (Hemiptera). Revista Brasileira de Biologia 32 (4): 561-564.