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Alveostethus politus

Description

Alveostethus politus (Signoret, 1851) [Fig. 19]

Distribution. Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, and Argentina.

Distribution in Colombia. Unknown. This species was recorded for Colombia by Ruckes (1966b), but without specific locality.

Remarks. Alveostethus politus has the eyes sloping posteriorly over the humeral angles of the pronotum; ocelli in line with mid region of eyes; scutellum very smooth, with a large, piceous, discal spot and conspicuous pale brown apex.

References. Ruckes 1966b, Dellapé et al. 2015.

Notes

Published as part of Castro-Huertas, Valentina, Grazia, Jocelia, Forero, Dimitri, Fernández, Fernando & Schwertner, Cristiano F., 2022, Stink bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) of Colombia: An annotated checklist of species, pp. 1-88 in Zootaxa 5097 (1) on page 17, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5097.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6036639

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References

  • Ruckes, H. (1966 b) An analysis and a breakdown of the genus Platycarenus Fieber (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae, Discocephalinae). American Museum Novitates, 2255, 1 - 42.
  • Dellape, G., Rider, D. A. & Dellape, P. M. (2015) Notes on distributions for Argentinean Pentatomidae (Heteroptera: Pentatomoidea), with new records in the country. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 59 (3), 169 - 176. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. rbe. 2015.06.001