Proxys Spinola, 1837

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 : 47

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5097.1.1
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scientific name	Proxys Spinola, 1837
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The genus can be recognized by the distance between eye to pronotum, approximately half to the diameter of eye, with a striated region between eye and pronotum; and the clypeus is acute and surpass the mandibular plates ( Rolston & McDonald 1984; Brailovsky 1987; Torres 2004)

References

Brailovsky, H. (1987) Hemiptera-Heteroptera de Mexico XXXVIII. Los Pentatomini de la Estacion de Biologia Tropical Los Tuxtlas , Veracruz (Pentatomidae). Anales del Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Series de Zoologia, 58 (1), 69 - 154.

Rolston, L. H. & McDonald, F. J. D. (1984) A conspectus of Pentatomini of the Western Hemisphere. Part 3 (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae). Journal New York Entomological Society, 92, 69 - 86.

Torres, C. (2004) La tribu Pentatomini (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) en Colombia. In: Andrade-C, M. G., Fernandez, F. & Amat, G. (Eds.), Insectos de Colombia. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, pp. 61 - 128.