Eurystethus Mayr, 1864

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 : 21

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.6953404
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/257B8D38-FFC5-FFF8-FF3E-FA4EE9F5F995
treatment provided by	Plazi (2022-02-10 09:51:00, last updated 2024-11-28 18:29:46)
scientific name	Eurystethus Mayr, 1864
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This genus can be recognized by having body depressed oval to elliptical, the head is usually slightly shorter than the median length of the pronotum, the mesosternum is hexagonal and wider than long, the scutellum does not reach the apex of abdomen, the labial segments I and II with an intercalary unit between them, the surface of the pronotum and scutellum has tubercles or processes, and the basal region of the scutellum with a pair of large tubercles ( Ruckes 1966d).

References

Ruckes, H. (1966 d) The genus Eurystethus Mayr, with the descriptions of new species (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae, Discocephalinae). American Museum Novitates, 2254, 1 - 38.