Cymodema breviceps (Stål, 1874), breviceps (Stal, 1874

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 : 502

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.15560/13.5.479

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4606452

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Cymodema breviceps (Stål, 1874)
status

 

Cymodema breviceps (Stål, 1874) View in CoL ( Fig. 46 View Figure 45–48 )

http://lsid.speciesfile.org/urn:lsid:Lygaeoidea.speciesfile. org:TaxonName:480101

Distribution. Argentina: Buenos Aires and Corrientes ( Melo et al. 2004, Dellapé and Carpintero 2012, Dellapé 2014); Bahamas, British Guiana, Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico, St Vincent, Trinidad, USA, and Virgin Islands ( Slater 1964).

Material examined. 1♀, XI-1990, D.L. Carpintero coll., PNI0889 (MLP).

Remarks. First record for Misiones province.

Members of this group are small brownish to yellow and coarsely punctate insects that closely resemble the seeds of the sedges upon which they live. Cymodema breviceps is the only species of the family recorded from Argentina.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cymidae

Genus

Cymodema

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