Alveostethus politus (Signoret, 1851)

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 : 17

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.

Figures

FIGURES 16‒31. Cyrtocorinae and Discocephalinae genera in Colombia. Cyrtocorinae: 16. Ceratozygum horridum (MPUJ). 17. Cyrtocoris egeris (ICN). Discocephalinae: 18. Ablaptus brevirostrum (AMNH). 19. Alveostethus politus (DAR). 20. Agaclitus dromedarius (MPUJ). 21. Antiteuchus sp. (MPUJ). 22. Coriplatus depressus (Indet.). 23. Colpocarena complanata (MPUJ). 24. Dinocoris sp. (MPUJ). 25. Discocephalessa humilis (ICN). 26. Dryptocephala dentifrons (MPUJ). 27. Eurystethus ovalis (MPUJ). 28. Paralcippus dimidiatus (IAVH). 29. Patronatus binotatus (DAR). 30. Pelidnocoris haglundi (MUSENUV). 31. Platycarenus umbractulatus (Indet.). Scale bar: 5 mm.