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Diceraeus melacanthus

Description

Diceraeus melacanthus (Dallas, 1851) [Fig. 60]

Distribution. Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina.

Distribution in Colombia. Caquetá and Cundinamarca.

Remarks. Diceraeus melacanthus has the mandibular plates acute, the ventral margin of the pygophore is medially bisinuate, and the gonocoxite VIII is flat, not inflated.

References. Grazia 1978; Barão et al. 2020

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 38, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5097.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6036639

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References

  • Dallas, W. S. (1851) List of the specimens of hemipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part 1. Taylor & Francis Incorporated, London, 147 pp.
  • Grazia, J. (1978) Revisao do genero Dichelops Spinola, 1837 (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae, Pentatomini). Iheringia, Serie Zoologia, 53, 3 - 119.
  • Barao, K., Ferrari, A. & Grazia, J. (2020) Phylogenetic analysis of the Euschistus group (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) suggests polyphyly of Dichelops Spinola, 1837 with the erection of Diceraeus Dallas, 1851, stat. rev. Austral Entomology, 59 (4), 770 - 783. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / aen. 12489