Arocera elongata Showalter, 1929

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 : 50

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5097.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6037283
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scientific name	Arocera elongata Showalter, 1929
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Distribution. Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, and Bolivia.

Distribution in Colombia. Antioquia, Boyacá, Meta, Putumayo, and Valle del Cauca.

Remarks. Arocera elongata has the dorsal surface of the body is mostly black with six orange spots, one on the head, one on the basal third of each corium, one on the posterolateral angle of each corium, and one on the apex of the scutellum; the spot on the apex of the scutellum sometimes continued cephalad as a thin orange line.

References. Rider 1992.

Examined material. COLOMBIA: 2♀, Boyacá, San Luis de Gaceno, Horizontes Buena Vista, 15 x 2005, N. Ocampo ( ICN); Santa María , Sendero Ecológico , 1200 m, iv 1997, G. Amat / ICN _055441 (ICN); Putumayo, Orito , 1 iii 1972 / MPUJ _ ENT 0010742 ( MPUJ _ ENT); 28 ii 1972 / MPUJ _ ENT 0010743 ( MPUJ _ ENT) ; 2♂, Valle del Cauca, B. Anchicayá , 400 m, H. Delgado / 1940 (MUSENUV); C.H. Anchicayá, 400 m, 1 vii 1976 / 1941 (MUSENUV) .