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Plochiocoris longicornis Champion 1900

Description

Plochiocoris longicornis Champion, 1900

(Fig. 17)

Plochiocoris longicornis Champion, 1900: 315.

Plochiocoris comptulus Drake & Harris, 1926: 36.

Lasiochilus longicornis: Carpintero et al., 1997: 24 (error for Plochiocoris longicornis)

Diagnostic characters: Measurements, see Table II. Male: Dorsal view: Dorsally shining. Pronotal sulcus and apex of scutellum opaque. General coloration piceous; hemelytra testaceous, translucent, with apical half of clavus and cuneus slightly darker, external margin of the latter reddish; legs, labium and antennae paler; the latter with segment I and apex of II blackish. Antennal segments in male (I:II:III:IV) 1: 4.4: 2.1: 2.1. Genitalia (see under generic description). Female: More robust than male, with smaller eyes and second antennal segment. Antennal segments (I:II:III:IV) 1: 3.1: 2.2: 2.2.

Distribution: Argentina, Brazil, Grenada, Nicaragua, Panama, USA. The species has also been newly recorded from Peru. (Fig. 21).

Material examined: Holotype, ♂, B. C. a., Rhynch. II, Plochiocoris longicornis Champ., David in Chiriqui, Champ., sp. figured. Type (BMNH). Holotype, ♂, Brownsville, Texas, May 16, 1904, H. S. Barber coll. Type #29148 (USNM). (Plochiocoris comptulus).

ARGENTINA: ♀ Misiones, Posadas, Aº Mártires, XI-1993, CDC, Carpintero. MACN; ♂ idem, (slidemounted). MACN; ♂ Santa Fe, El Rabón, XI-1939, (slide-mounted). MACN; BRAZIL: 2♀ Amazonas, Reserva Ducke, Am 010, Km 26, 25-X-1977. INPA; ♀ Same locality, 18-X-1977. INPA; 2♀ Same locality, 1-XI-1977. INPA; ♂ Am, P. Laranjeiras, 8/ 14-VII-1981, Arias col., (slide-mounted). MACN; NICARAGUA: ♀ Masaya, Las Flores, VI-1959, UV, col. C. Lecoq —R. Cantaressa. MACN; 1♀, 4♂ León, Las Marías, II-1995, Maës coll. MACN; 2♂ same data, (slide-mounted). MACN; ♂ same locality, III-1995, (slide-mounted). MACN; ♂ Granada, Vn. Mombacho, bosque Nubl., 31-III-98, Malaise (trap), J. M. Maës, (slide-mounted). MACN; PERU: 1♀, 2♂ Cusco, Cashiriari, (light), 4/ 22-VII-2005, J. Williams. MACN; ♂ same data, (slide-mounted). MACN.

Notes

Published as part of Carpintero, Diego Leonardo, 2014, Western Hemisphere Lasiochilinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Anthocoridae) with comments on some extralimital species and some considerations on suprageneric relationships, pp. 1-87 in Zootaxa 3871 (1) on pages 13-14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3871.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4947859

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BMNH, USNM , INPA , MACN
Event date
1904-05-16 , 1977-10-18 , 1977-10-25 , 1977-11-01 , 1981-07-14 , 2005-07-22
Family
Anthocoridae
Genus
Plochiocoris
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Champion
Species
longicornis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
1904-05-16 , 1977-10-18 , 1977-10-25 , 1977-11-01 , 1981-07-14 , 2005-07-22
Taxonomic concept label
Plochiocoris longicornis Champion, 1900 sec. Carpintero, 2014

References

  • Champion, G. C. (1900) Rhynchota. (Hemiptera-Heteroptera) (11). In: Godman, F. D. & Salvin, O. (Eds.), Biologia Centrali - Americana (Zoologia). Published for the editors by R. H. Porter, London, pp. 305 - 344.
  • Drake, C. J. & Harris, H. M. (1926) Notes on American Anthocoridae with description of new forms. Proceedings of the biological Society of Washington, 39, 33 - 46.
  • Carpintero, D. L., Maes, J. M. & Coscaron, M. C. (1997) Catalogo de los Anthocoridae (Heteroptera) de Nicaragua. Revista Nicaraguense de Entomologia, 41, 23 - 26.