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Eccritotarsus palmirensis Carvalho & Costa 1989

  • 1. Museo entomológico UNAB. Sistemática de Insectos Agronomía, SIA. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias. Cra 30, 45 - 03. Bogotá, D. C. Colombia. & aalvarezz @ unal. edu. co; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5400 - 4742
  • 2. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia. Departamento de Entomologia, Universidade Federal de Viçosa. 36570 - 900 Viçosa, MG, Brasil. (Full Professor retired) paulofiuza 41 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7165 - 6398
  • 3. Museo entomológico UNAB. Sistemática de Insectos Agronomía, SIA. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias. Cra 30, 45 - 03. Bogotá, D. C. Colombia. & fjsernac @ unal. edu. co; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6143 - 9821

Description

Eccritotarsus palmirensis Carvalho & Costa, 1989

(Figs. 17, 53–54)

Eccritotarsus palmirensis Carvalho & Costa, 1989: 71 (original description).

Material examined. COLOMBIA. Valle del Cauca: 1 ♂, Cali, PNN Farallones de Cali, Cgto. Los Andes, Vda. Quebrada Honda, Centro de educación ambiental, 1730 m, 3º20’N, 76º38’W, Malaise trap, 13–­ 20.v.1998 (H. Peña & Beltrán) (IAVH-E-164417).

Diagnosis. Body white and black. Head in dorsal view, pronotum and apex of cuneus black. Corium with irregular round spot towards the claval suture, extending only to the embolium. Embolium proximally white and distally black. Body length 5.50 mm. Right paramere (Fig. 53) with basal process disc-shaped; body widened with median constriction, part of the body opposite to the apical process more elongate than the contiguous one; sensory lobe absent; apical process proximally elongate, distally sub-rectangular and transverse to the proximal part. Left paramere (Fig. 54) with basal process straight; body curved and tubular; sensory lobe absent; apical process short, flattened, and blunt, parallel to the proximal part of the body.

Associated/host plants. Unknown.

Distribution. Colombia (Valle del Cauca) (Carvalho & Costa 1989).

Comments. Type material of this species was lost in transit when sent from Brazil, by Dr. J.C.M Carvalho, to the MEFLG in Colombia (ICA 1990).

Notes

Published as part of Alvarez-Zapata, Alejandra, Ferreira, Paulo S. F. & Serna, Francisco, 2022, A taxonomic synopsis of the Eccritotarsini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae Bryocorinae) of Colombia, pp. 101-151 in Zootaxa 5178 (2) on page 123, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5178.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7022163

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
1998-05-20
Verbatim event date
1998-05-20
Scientific name authorship
Carvalho & Costa
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Miridae
Genus
Eccritotarsus
Species
palmirensis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Eccritotarsus palmirensis Carvalho, 1989 sec. Alvarez-Zapata, Ferreira & Serna, 2022

References

  • Carvalho, J. C. M. & Costa, L. A. A. (1989) Mirideos neotropicais: CCXCV cinco especies novas do genero Eccritotarus Stal (Hemiptera). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 33, 67 - 74.
  • ICA (Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario) (1990) Notas y Noticias Entomologicas Septiembre - Octubre 1990. Available from: http: // wikinsecta. org / index. php / NOTAS _ Y _ NOTICIAS _ ENTOMOLOGICAS _ Septiembre _ - _ Octubre _ 1990 (accessed 5 July 2022)