Pellaea stictica Dallas, 1851

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 : 66

Pellaea stictica Dallas, 1851 [ Fig. 98 ]

Distribution. USA, Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Argentina.

Distribution in Colombia. Valle del Cauca.

Remarks. Pellaea stictica has the pygophore with the concavity on each side interrupted by an obtuse and diagonal carina, and the paramere with processes.

References. Kirkaldy 1909; Rolston & McDonald 1980; Rolston 1984; Silva et al. 2018; Dellapé 2021a.

Examined material. COLOMBIA: 4♂, 3♀, Valle del Cauca, Cali , 1000 m, 1982, Naranjo / 1932 (MUSENUV); idem, 1979 /1931 (MUSENUV); idem, Tierra cult., 1 x 1970 / 1952 (MUSENUV) ;

Ca. Cali, árbol, 27 xii 1991, S. Villamizar / 1935 (MUSENUV); Palmira, 1001 m, 17 iii 2001, C. Vargas / 20970 (MUSENUV); Tuluá, Mateguadua, 1 xi 1985, Murillo / 1930 (MUSENUV); idem, maleza, 1000 m, 1 xi 1991, S. Mosquera / 1933 (MUSENUV) .

Figures

FIGURES 96‒108. Pentatominae genera in Colombia. 96. Elsiella plana (MPUJ). 97. Neotibilis parva (MPUJ). 98. Pellaea stictica (MPUJ). 99. Phalaecus sp. (IAVH). 100. Pharypia pulchella (MPUJ). 101. Placocoris sp. (MPUJ). 102. Serdia delphis (MPUJ). 103. Taurocerus achilles (MPUJ). 104. Piezodorus guildinii (MPUJ). 105. Odmalea concolor (MPUJ). 106. Pseudobebaeus truncatus (UFRG). 107. Murgantia bifasciata (ICN). 108. Patanius vittatus (MZUSP). Scale bar: 5 mm.