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Vatiga pauxilla

  • 1. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Département Systématique et Évolution, UMR 7205, case postale 50, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) guilbert @ mnhn. fr
  • 2. División Entomología, Museo de Ciencias Naturales de La Plata, UNLP, Paseo del Bosque s / nº, 1900 La Plata, Buenos Aires (Argentina) smontemay @ fcnym. unlp. edu. ar

Description

Vatiga pauxilla (Drake & Poor, 1939)

Leptopharsa pauxilla Drake & Poor, 1939: 32.

Vatiga pauxilla – Drake & Ruhoff 1960: 29.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Argentina. Province of Jujuy, Calilegua, 4.VI.2007, Guilbert & Montemayor coll., 1 (MNHN).

DISTRIBUTION. — Argentina: Corrientes (Empedrado). The genus is distributed from Central to South America, with only the two species V. manihotae (Drake, 1922) and V. pauxilla known from Argentina. Vatiga pauxilla, exclusively distributed in Argentina, is here recorded for the first time from Jujuy. It was collected in the canopy of a tree at 25 m above the ground in Calilegua park.

HOST PLANTS. — Unrecorded.

Notes

Published as part of Guilbert, Éric & Montemayor, Sara I., 2010, Tingidae (Insecta, Heteroptera) from the Argentinan Yungas: new records and descriptions of selected fifth instars, pp. 549-565 in Zoosystema 32 (4) on pages 562-563, DOI: 10.5252/z2010n4a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5167510

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MNHN
Event date
2007-06-04
Verbatim event date
2007-06-04
Scientific name authorship
Drake & Poor
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Tingidae
Genus
Vatiga
Species
pauxilla
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Vatiga pauxilla (Drake, 1939) sec. Guilbert & Montemayor, 2010

References

  • DRAKE C. J. & POOR M. E. 1939. - SomeTingitidae from the Republic of Argentina. Physis 17: 95 - 98.
  • DRAKE C. J. & RUHOFF F. A. 1960. - Lace-bug genera of the world (Hemiptera: Tingidae). Proceedings of the U. S. National Museum 112: 1 - 105.
  • DRAKE C. J. 1922. - Neotropical Tingitidae with descriptions of three new genera and thirty-two new species and varieties (Hemiptera). Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum 9: 351 - 377.