Pyrrhosphodrus amazonus Stal 1866
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Pyrrhosphodrus amazonus Stål, 1866
Pyrrhosphodrus amazonus Stål (1866: 298) (new species); Stål (1872: 87) (diagnosis, new variety, distribution); Wygodzinsky (1949: 44) (checklist); Putshkov & Putshkov (1988: 154) (catalog); Maldonado Capriles (1990: 269) (catalog).
Material studied: 1 ♀ COLOMBIA, Meta, San Martin, San Francisco, Hacienda Tocancipá, 330 m, 20/IV/2005,
Romero et al. leg. MPUJ_ENT 0 0 11151 (MPUJ). Photo of a female syntype of P. amazonus, housed at NHRS, collection number 0 358.
Distribution. Pyrrhosphodrus amazonus was described from Northern Brazil (Stål, 1866) and subsequently recorded from Colombia (Stål, 1872).
Discussion. Similarly to the situation with P. militaris (see above), P. amazonus and P. geraesensis share a common color pattern. We did not have access to the type specimen of P. geraesensis, however, based on the original description, it seems very similar to P. amazonus except by the characters mentioned in the key. Fallou (1887) ambiguously described leg coloration, leaving for interpretation the pattern of black annuli present on all the femora; thus we interpreted the description as indicated below in the key. Further examination of the type specimen of P. geraesensis might help decide if these two species really are synonyms.
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Biodiversity
- Event date
- 2005-04-20
- Verbatim event date
- 2005-04-20
- Scientific name authorship
- Stal
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Family
- Reduviidae
- Genus
- Pyrrhosphodrus
- Species
- amazonus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pyrrhosphodrus amazonus Stal, 1866 sec. Lapischies, Forero, Barcellos & Salomão, 2019
References
- Stal, C. (1866) Bidrag till Reduviidernas kannedom. Ofversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Forhandlingar, 9, 235 - 302.
- Wygodzinsky, P. (1949) Elenco sistematico de los Reduviformes Americanos. Instituto de Medicina Regional, Tucuman, 102 pp.
- Putshkov, V. G. & Putshkov, P. V. (1988) A catalogue of assassin-bugs of the World (Heteroptera, Reduviidae). III. Harpactorinae. Published by the authors, deposited in VINITI (All-Union Institute of Sci. & Techn. Information, No. 286 - B), Moskva, 88 pp. [Russian preface, English main text]
- Maldonado Capriles, J. (1990) Systematic catalogue of the Reduviidae of the World. Caribbean Journal of Science, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, 355 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / aesa / 85.4.532
- Fallou, C. F. (1887) Diagnoses d'Hemipteres nouveaux de Minas Geraes. Le Naturaliste, 2, 68.