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Loxa viridis

Description

Loxa viridis (Palisot de Beuvois, 1805) (Fig. 42)

Distribution. Argentina: Buenos Aires (Carpintero and de Biase 2011); Southern USA to southern Brazil and Uruguay (Eger 1978, Ruffinelli and Pirán 1959).

Material examined. 1♀, XI-1944, M. Birabén coll., PNI0771 (MLP); 1♂ 5♀, 29-X-2012, light trap, PNI072-7 (MLP); 1♀, 30-X-2012, light trap, PNI0778 (MLP); 1♀, 2-XI-2012, light trap, PNI0779 (MLP).

Remarks. First record for Misiones province.

In this species the posterior margin of the corium is strongly sinuous, and the lateral angles are produced. In males the posterior dorsal side of the proctiger lack distinct spines, and the dorsolateral parameral processes from caudal view are inclined dorsad and rounded at the apex. In females the length of the first gonocoxae from base at meson to posterior apex is less than 1.5 mm, and the length of the second gonocoxae at meson less than 0.9 mm (Eger 1978).

Notes

Published as part of María C. Melo, Gimena Dellapé, Leonela Olivera, Pablo S. Varela, Sara I. Montemayor & Pablo M. Dellapé, 2017, Diversity of true bugs from Iguazú National Park, Argentina, pp. 479-511 in Check List 13 (5) on page 500, DOI: 10.15560/13.5.479, http://zenodo.org/record/1143518

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Journal article: 10.15560/13.5.479 (DOI)
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References

  • Palisot de Beauvois AMFJ (1805) Insectes recueillis en Afrique et en Amerique, dans les royaumes d'Oware et de Benin, a Saint- Domingue et dans les Etats-Unis pendant les annees 1786 - 1797. Imprimerie de Fain et Compagnie, Paris, Parts 1 - 2: 1 - 40.
  • Carpintero DL, De Biase S (2011) Los Hemiptera Heteroptera de la Isla Martin Garcia (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Historia Natural Tercera Serie 1 (2): 27 - 47.
  • Eger JE (1978) Revision of the genus Loxa (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 86 (3): 224 - 259.
  • Ruffinelli A, Piran AA (1959) Hemipteros heteropteros del Uruguay. Boletin de la Facultad de Agronomia, Montevideo 51: 1 - 60.