Alcaeorrhynchus grandis ( Dallas, 1851 )

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 : 7

Alcaeorrhynchus grandis ( Dallas, 1851) [ Fig. 1]

Distribution. USA, Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica, Honduras, Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil , Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina.

Distribution in Colombia. Chocó, Cundinamarca, Magdalena, Meta, and Valle del Cauca.

Remarks. Alcaeorrhynchus grandis has the humeral angles bifid and directed forward. It is the only species record- ed widely in the Neotropical region. Alcaeorrhynchus phymatophorus (Palisot de Beauvoius, 1805) is only known from the Caribbean, including the Florida Keys.

References. Thomas 1992.

Examined material. COLOMBIA: 1♂, Chocó, Cuevita , 01 vi 1950, L. Richter / ICN _055397 (ICN); 1♀, Cundinamarca, Bogotá, Barrio Galerías , 31 vi 2010, J. Avendaño ( ICN) ; 1♂, Magdalena, Santa Marta, PNN Tayrona , 8 xii 1977, M. Romero / ICN _055398 (ICN); 1♀, Meta, Villavicencio, Bosque Bavaria , 600m, M. Rodríguez, 10 iv 2006 / MPUJ _ ENT 0018128 ( MPUJ _ ENT) ; 1♂, 2♀, Valle del Cauca, Buenaventura, vii 1962 / MPUJ _ ENT 0010679 ( MPUJ _ ENT); Cali , 1000 m, 20 vi 1980, 22792 (MUSENUV); Rio Maya, Playa el Ají , 0 m, 28 iv 1984, Yesid Solarte, 22791 (MUSENUV) .