Pycnoderes Guérin-Menèville

Ferreira, Paulo Sérgio Fiuza, Martins, David Dos Santos, Ferreira, Luciano Santana Fiuza & Fornazier, Maurício José, 2024, Synopsis of Miridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in Atlantic Forest Dominion, Espírito Santo State, Brazil: keys, diagnoses, new species, plant associations, and geographic distribution. Part I: Bryocorinae, Cylapinae and Deraeocorinae., Zootaxa 5468 (2), pp. 201-254 : 224

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5468.2.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11617005
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scientific name	Pycnoderes Guérin-Menèville
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Genus Pycnoderes Guérin-Menèville View in CoL

Type species: Pycnoderes quadrimaculatus Guérin-Menèville, 1857:404 . Monotypic.

Diagnosis. Species black and white, oval, or oblong in shape, with silvery spots on the hemelytra; pronotal disc greatly inflated; length of antennae about 3/4 of body length; hemelytra with a widely expanded and flattened embolium; and head, pronotum, and scutellum roughly punctate ( Capriles 1969; Alayo 1974).