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Pachymerocerista pilosus Carvalho

Description

Pachymerocerista pilosus (Carvalho)

Pachymerocerus pilosus Carvalho, 1947a: 108 (orig. descrip.).

Pachymerocerista pilosus: Carvalho and Gomes, 1971a: 100 (n. comb.). Pachymerocista [sic] pilosus: Schuh, 1976: 9 (pretarsus).

Diagnosis. General color brownish orange. Head and eyes reddish to black; second antennal segment, clavus, cuneus, and membrane fuscous to reddish brown. Antennal segments I, III, and IV brown. Pronotum and scutellum reddish orange. Embolium hyaline. External area of radial vein on corium yellow or reddish. Coxae and base of femora hyaline; apices of femora reddish; tarsi fuscous. Some specimens with corium, mesosternum, metapleuron, and abdomen fuscous to reddish brown. Length 2.80 mm.

Host. Unknown.

Distribution. Argentina, Brazil (Minas Gerais, E. do Rio) (Carvalho, 1957); Panama (Carvalho and Gomes, 1971a).

Minas Gerais specimens examined. None examined.

Other specimens examined: 5 3, 3ƤƤ, Panama, Balboa, Canal Zone, Oct. 1946, N. L. H. Krauss (USNM); 3 3, Panama, Barro Colo. Is., Jan–Mar. 1944, Zetek (USNM). 1, 3, 1 Ƥ, Venezuela, Barinas, Rio Caparo Res. Stn., 32 km E El Canton, 3–5 Feb. 1978, J. B. Heppner, at black light (USNM).

Notes

Published as part of Ferreira, Paulo Sergio Fiuza & Henry, Thomas J., 2011, Synopsis and keys to the tribes, genera, and species of Miridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of Minas Gerais, Brazil Part I: Bryocorinae, pp. 1-41 in Zootaxa 2920 on page 21, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.277915

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Genus
Pachymerocerista
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Carvalho
Species
pilosus
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Carvalho, J. C. M. (1947 a) Mirideos neotropicais, XXIX: Itacoris n. gen., e tres especies novas de generos ja revistos (Hemiptera). Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias, 19 (1), 103 - 111.
  • Carvalho, J. C. M. & Gomes, I. da P. (1971 a) Mirideos neotropicais, CXXIV: Quatro generos e dezesseis especies novos da tribo Bryocorini Douglas and Scott (Hemiptera). Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias, 43, 461 - 478.
  • Schuh, R. T. (1976) Pretarsal structure in the Miridae (Hemiptera with a cladistic analysis of relationships with the family. American Museum Novitates, No. 2601, 1 - 39.