Mormidea triangularis ( Walker, 1867 )

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 : 44

Mormidea triangularis ( Walker, 1867)

Distribution. Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

Distribution in Colombia. Meta and Nariño.

Remarks. Mormidea triangularis has the body entirely black; the lateral margin of the mandibular plates, the anterolateral and posterolateral margins of the pronotum, the lateral margins of the scutellum, and the costal margin of the coria are yellowish; the femur and tibia are yellowish with black bands. Rolston (1985) described Mormidea kirkaldyi based in specimens identified as Mormidea montandoni Kirkaldy in Rolston (1978). Thomas (1990) synonymized M. kirkaldyi with M. triangularis .

References. Kirkaldy 1909; Rolston 1985; Thomas 1990; Castro-Huertas et al. 2015.