Murgantia varicolor (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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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6037552
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scientific name	Murgantia varicolor (Westwood, 1837)
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Distribution. USA, Mexico, Panama, Colombia, and Brazil.

Distribution in Colombia. Unknown. This species was recorded for Colombia by Kirkaldy (1909), but without specific locality.

Remarks. Murgantia varicolor has the head dark dorsally with five pale spots, a pair oval on the mandibular plates, and a pair elongated on the anteocular region, and one longitudinal medial; the pronotum is dark with the lateral margins pale, a longitudinal stripe pale and a pair of the transversal stripes pale on anterior and posterior portion respectively.

References. Kirkaldy 1909; Brailovsky & Barrera 1989.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hemiptera
Family	Pentatomidae
SubFamily	Pentatominae
Tribe	Strachiini
Genus	Murgantia

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