Discocera coccinea (Fabricius, 1798)

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 : 8-9

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scientific name

Discocera coccinea (Fabricius, 1798)
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Discocera coccinea (Fabricius, 1798) [ Fig. 5 View FIGURES 1‒15 ]

Distribution. Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Surinam, Paraguay, and Bolivia.

Distribution in Colombia. Amazonas and Guainía.

Remarks. Discocera coccinea has the base of abdomen with a short tubercle, the humeral angles produced in a short spine, and the protibia not dilated.

References. Thomas 1992.

Examined material. COLOMBIA: 2♀, Amazonas, PNN Amacayacu, Tierra Firme, Jameo , 5 ix 1997, F. Fernández ( ICN) ; Leticia, Km 10 vía Tarapacá , 150 m, 20 xi 2002, Est. Sist.Animal ( ICN) ; 1 nymph, Guainía, Santa Rosa, Caño Bocón , 3°40’46’’N, 68°2’26’’W, 100 m, 4-13 xi 1996, S.A. Amézquita ( ICN) GoogleMaps .

Thomas, D. (1992) Taxonomic synopsis of the Asopine Pentatomidae (Heteroptera) of western hemisphere. Entomological Society of America, Lanham, Maryland, 156 pp.

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FIGURES 1‒15. Asopinae genera in Colombia. 1. Alcaeorrhynchus grandis (MPUJ). 2. Andrallus spinidens (UNAB). 3. Apateticus lineolatus (MPUJ). 4. Coryzorhaphis carneolus (ICN). 5. Discocera coccinea (MPUJ). 6. Euthyrhyncus floridanus (MPUJ). 7. Heteroscelis lepida (MPUJ). 8. Marmessulus sp. (MPUJ). 9. Oplomus festivus (MPUJ). 10. Podisus aenescens (MPUJ). 11. Stiretrus cinctellus (ICN). 12. Supputius typicus (MPUJ). 13. Tylospilus acutissimus (MPUJ). 14. Tynacantha marginata (MPUJ). 15. Tyrannocoris nigriceps (IAVH). Scale bar: 5 mm.

ICN

Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Museo de Historia Natural

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Lecideaceae

SubFamily

Asopinae

Genus

Discocera