Taurocerus Amyot & Serville, 1843

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, Zootaxa 5097 (1), pp. 1-88 : 69

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5097.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:22D34955-4764-495D-8CD0-13ED18712C93

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6953596

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/257B8D38-FF95-FFA8-FF3E-FC47EBE6FB25

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Plazi

scientific name

Taurocerus Amyot & Serville, 1843
status

 

Taurocerus Amyot & Serville, 1843

The genus can be recognized by having the first antennal segment not surpassing the apex of the head; the mandibular plates shorter than the clypeus; the labium reaching the abdominal sternite III to IV; the first labial segment surpassing the bucculae; the bucculae is anteriorly truncate and posteriorly lobed; the humeral angles are projected in strong spines with the apex curve and backward; the femora distally with short spines, one dorsally and a pair laterally; the tibiae is dorsally sulcate; the mesosternum is slightly more elevated than the metasternum; the abdominal sternites have a medial, longitudinal kneel; and the abdominal sternite III has a medial tubercle opposed to posterior margin of the metasternum ( Grazia & Barcellos 2005).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Pentatomidae

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