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

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.6037312

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/257B8D38-FFE3-FFDE-FF3E-FA6AEDACF8CB

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scientific name

Rhyssocephala macdonaldi Rider, 1991
status

 

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).

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Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

ICN

Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Museo de Historia Natural

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Pentatomidae

Genus

Rhyssocephala

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