Proxys albopunctulatus (Palisot de Beauvois, 1805)

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 : 47

Proxys albopunctulatus (Palisot de Beauvois, 1805) [ Fig. 73 ]

Distribution. USA, Mexico, Honduras, Grenada, St. Vincent and Grenadines, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Argentina.

Distribution in Colombia. Boyacá, Casanare, Cundinamarca, Huila, and Meta.

Remarks. Proxys albopunctulatus has the metafemur lacking the apical black bands, the ventral margin of the pygophore is distinctly inflated, produced posteroventrally; and the lateral wall of the pygophore has 20 or more longitudinal ridges.

References. Kirkaldy 1909; Pirán 1948, 1956; Becker & Grazia 1971a; Thomas 2000; Arismendi & Thomas 2003; Rider 2009; Castro-Huertas et al. 2015.

Figures

FIGURES 64‒79. Pentatominae genera in Colombia. 64. Hypatropis rolstoni (UFRG). 65. Lattinidea geografica (MPUJ). 66. Lattinellica decora (UFRG). 67. Mitripus acutus (MPUJ). 68. Mormidea ypsilon (MPUJ). 69. Oebalus ypsilongriseus (MPUJ). 70. Padaeus viduus (DAR). 71. Paratibraca infuscata (UFRG). 72. Poriptus luctans (MPUJ). 73. Proxys albopunctulatus (MPUJ). 74. Sibaria englemanni (MPUJ). 75. Spinalanx monstrabilis (MPUJ). 76. Stysiana pardidens (MPUJ) 77. Tibraca limbativentris (MZUSP). 78. Arocera spectabilis (MPUJ). 79. Rhyssocephala splendens (MPUJ). Scale bar: 5 mm.