Opisthacidius lutzi ( Costa Lima, 1940 )

María C. Melo, Gimena Dellapé, Leonela Olivera, Pablo S. Varela, Sara I. Montemayor & Pablo M. Dellapé, 2017, Diversity of true bugs from Iguazú National Park, Argentina, Check List 13 (5), pp. 479-511 : 485

Opisthacidius lutzi ( Costa Lima, 1940)

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Distribution. Argentina: Buenos Aires, La Rioja, Mendoza, Salta, San Luis, and Santiago del Estero ( Lent and Wygodzinsky 1947b).

Material examined. 1♀, P.N. Iguazú, XII-1979, Carpintero coll., PNI0101 (MACN).

Remarks. First record for Misiones province.

This species can be distinguished by the small size (less than 20 mm); the mostly black pronotum and corium, and the dark abdominal sterna ( Lent and Wygodzinsky 1956).

Figures

Figure 2–13. Reduviidae. 2. Brontostoma castaneum Carpintero, 1980. 3. Brontostoma discus (Burmeister, 1835). 4. Cricetopareis paraguaya Carpintero, 1980. 5. Pothea martinezi Carpintero, 1980. 6. Apiomerus mutabilis Costa Lima, Campos Seabra and Hathaway, 1951. 6.a. A. mutabilis: median process of pygophore, posterior view. 7. Arilus carinatus (Forster, 1771), new country record. 8. Doldina lauta (Stål, 1860), new country record. 9-10. Graptocleptes sanguineiventris (Stål, 1866), new country record. 11. Heza multiannulata Stål, 1860, new country record. 12. Opisthacidius lutzi (Costa Lima, 1940), first record for Misiones province. 13. Opisthacidius pertinax (Breddin, 1903), first record for Misiones province.