Rhyssocephala macdonaldi Rider, 1991

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 : 51

Rhyssocephala macdonaldi Rider, 1991

Distribution. Guatemala to northwestern South America. Record in Jamaica doubtful.

Distribution in Colombia. Amazonas, Antioquia, Cundinamarca, Magdalena, Putumayo, and Tolima.

Remarks. Rhyssocephala macdonaldi has a reddish band along anterolateral pronotal margins usually lacking infuscated areas, basal plates fuscous to black, becoming reddish basally, ventral margin of pygophore in ventral view with a large, subtriangular, medial emargination, and posterior wall of pygophore with small black spicules laterally.

References. Rider 1991.

Examined material. COLOMBIA: 1♀, Amazonas, PNN Amacayacu, Boca Caño Matamata , 6 x 1988, F. Fernández / IAvH-E 05036 (IAvH-E) ; 1♀, Cundinamarca, Nariño, 300 m, luz bombillo, 22 iv 1988, R. Jaramillo / ICN _077422 ( ICN); Tolima, Ibagué , 28 ii 1973, J. Rojas / ICN _077424 / ICN_077421 (ICN).