Ochterus viridifrons ( Champion, 1901 )

Kment, Petr, Carapezza, Attilio & Jindra, Zdeněk, 2020, Taxonomic catalogue of the family Ochteridae with description of Ochterus papaceki sp. nov. from Socotra Island and Tanzania (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1), pp. 23-64 : 48

Ochterus viridifrons ( Champion, 1901)

Pelogonus viridifrons Champion, 1901: 345– 346 , Pl. XX: fig. 14 (key, original description, illustration). SYNTYPES:, Guatemala: ‘Rio Naranjo’ (BMNH); ♀, Guatemala: ‘San Gerónimo’ (BMNH).

Ochterus viridifrons : KIRKALDY & TORRE BUENO (1909): 179 (catalogue); BARBER (1913): 214 (key to species); SCHELL (1943a): 32, 35 (key to species, illustration); SCHELL (1943b): 37 –38 (original description repeated, differential diagnosis); DRAKE (1952): 75 (checklist); FROESCHNER (1999): 148 (catalogue); HECKMAN (2011): 459 (key to species, illustration); CIANFERONI (2012):67 (key to species); HERRERA MADRIGAL (2015): 256 (illustration); POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS (2016): 10, 15, 18, 71–73 (key to species, redescription, illustrations).

Distribution. Neotropical Region: Central America: Costa Rica ( SCHELL 1943b, HERRERA MADRIGAL 2015, POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016); Guatemala (CHAMPION 1910, KIRKAL- DY & TORRE BUENO 1909, POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016); Honduras ( POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016); Mexico ( DRAKE

1952): Chiapas ( POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016), Durango ( NIESER & CHEN 1992), Guerrero ( POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016), Oaxaca ( POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016); Panama ( SCHELL 1943b, FROESCHNER 1999, POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016). South America: Ecuador ( CIANFERONI 2012).

Note. A specimen from Grand Canyon, Arizona, mentioned by SCHELL (1943b: 38) and DRAKE (1952) belongs to O. rotundus (see POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 1976: 224).