Murgantia violascens (Westwood, 1837)

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 : 71

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5097.1.1
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scientific name	Murgantia violascens (Westwood, 1837)
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Distribution. Jamaica, Colombia, and Brazil.

Distribution in Colombia. Bolívar.

Remarks. Murgantia violascens has the membrane of hemelytron brownish with blue-green metallic reflexes; the gonocoxite VIII is conspicuously expanded almost covering the gonoplac; and the lateral margins of the pygophore is excavated.

References. Kirkaldy 1909; Brailovsky & Barrera 1989; Castro-Huertas et al. 2015.

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References

Brailovsky, H. & Barrera, E. (1989) El genero Murgantia Stal, con descripcion de cuatro nuevas especies y algunos registros nuevos (Hemiptera - Heteroptera - Pentatomidae - Pentatomini) de America Latina. Anales del Instituto de Biologia de la Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 59, 219 - 244.

Castro-Huertas, V., Schwertner, C. F. & Fernandez, F. (2015) New records of stink bugs (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) from Colombia. Zootaxa, 3973 (3), 553 - 566. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3973.3.9

Kirkaldy, G. (1909) Catalogue of the Hemiptera (Heteroptera). 1. Cimicidae. Felix L. Dames, Berlin. 392 pp.