Loxa Amyot & Serville, 1843

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 : 55

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5097.1.1
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scientific name	Loxa Amyot & Serville, 1843
status

Treatment

The genus can be recognized by having the osteolar sulcus extending less of the half distance between the medial margin of the peritreme and the metapleura; the apex of the femora have a spine, and the hemelytron without a callosity ( Eger 1978).

References

Eger, J. E. (1978) Revision of the genus Loxa (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae). New York Entomological Society, 86, 224 - 259.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hemiptera
Family	Pentatomidae

Specimens