Dryptocephala Laporte, 1832

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 : 20

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5097.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:22D34955-4764-495D-8CD0-13ED18712C93
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6953402
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scientific name	Dryptocephala Laporte, 1832
status

Treatment

This genus can be recognized by having the first labial segment just reaching the anterior margin of the prosternum, a cylindrical metatibia, with a narrow dorsal groove or impressed line, and the scutellum not surpassing the abdominal tergite V ( Ruckes 1966c).

References

Ruckes, H. (1966 c) The genus Dryptocephala Laporte (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae, Discocephalinae). American Museum Novitates, 2256, 1 - 32.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hemiptera
Family	Pentatomidae
SubFamily	Discocephalinae
Tribe	Discocephalini

Specimens