Ochterus aeneifrons aeneifrons ( 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 : 31-32

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.37520/aemnp.2020.003
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:085DDB9B-0127-4EF6-9B32-826C0FB1219E
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4469355
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/43368780-FA5C-1850-B906-FBE7FE4FFCF6
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scientific name	Ochterus aeneifrons aeneifrons ( Champion, 1901 )
status

Treatment

Ochterus aeneifrons aeneifrons ( Champion, 1901) View in CoL

Pelogonus marginatus (misidentification, partim): UHLER (1893): 706 (list, ‘two forms’); UHLER (1894): 222 (variability).

Pelogonus aeneifrons Champion, 1901: 344– 345 View in CoL – 346, Pl. XX: figs 12, 13, 13a (key, original description, variability, llustrations). SYNTYPES: 24 spec. (♀♀), Mexico: Tabasco: ‘Teapa’; Guatemala: ‘San Gerónimo, Guatemala city’; Panama: ‘Tolé, Peña Blanca, San Feliz’; Grenada; St. Vincent (BMNH).

Ochterus aeneifrons View in CoL : KIRKALDY & TORRE BUENO (1909): 179 (catalogue).

Ochterus View in CoL aenifrons (incorrect subsequent spelling): BARBER (1913): 213 (key to species).

Ochterus View in CoL aenifrons (incorrect subsequent spelling): SCHELL (1943a): 32, 35 (key to species, illustration); SCHELL (1943b): 43 –44 (original description repeated, differential diagnosis); DRAKE (1952): 74 (checklist).

Ochterus aeneifrons View in CoL : FROESCHNER (1981): 61 (catalogue); FROESCHNER (1999): 148 (catalogue); HECKMAN (2011): 462 (key to species); CIANFERONI (2012): 67 View Cited Treatment (key to species for Ecuador).

Ochterus aeneifrons aeneifrons View in CoL : NIESER & ALKINS KOO (1991): 14 (key); POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS (2012): 17, 20–24 (key to species, redescription, illustrations).

Ochterus barberi View in CoL (misidentification): SCHELL (1943b): 42 (paratypes from Orizaba, Mexico) (see POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016).

Distribution. Neotropical Region: Central America: Belize ( POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016); Costa Rica ( SCHELL 1943b, POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016); El Salvador (POLHE- MUS & POLHEMUS 2016); Guatemala ( CHAMPION 1901, KIRKALDY & TORRE BUENO 1909, SCHELL 1943b, POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016); Honduras ( SCHELL 1943b); Mexico ( KIRKALDY & TORRE BUENO 1909, SCHELL 1943b, DRAKE 1952): Chiapas ( POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016), Colima ( POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016), Guerrero ( POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016), Jalisco ( POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016), Mexico ( POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016), Nayarit ( POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016), Nuevo León ( POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016), Oaxaca ( POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016), Puebla ( POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016), Queretaro ( POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016), San Luis Potosí ( POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016), Tabasco ( CHAMPION 1901), Tamaulipas ( POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016), Veracruz ( POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016); Nicaragua ( POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016); Panama ( CHAMPION 1901, KIRKALDY & TORRE BUENO 1909, SCHELL 1943b, FROESCHNER 1999, POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016). Caribbean Islands: Grenada ( UHLER 1894, as P. marginatus ; CHAMPION 1901; KIRKALDY & TORRE BUENO 1909); St. Vincent ( UHLER 1893, as P. marginatus ; CHAMPION 1901; KIRKALDY & TORRE BUENO 1909); Trinidad and Tobago ( KIRKALDY & TORRE BUENO 1909, SCHELL 1943b, NIESER & ALKINS KOO 1991, POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016). South America: Colombia ( SCHELL 1943b, DRAKE 1952, POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016); Ecuador ( SCHELL 1943b; FROESCHNER 1981; NIESER & CHEN 1992, as O. aeneifrons ).

Note. The subspecies identity of the specimens recorded from Ecuador only as O. aeneifrons by NIESER & CHEN (1992) requires confirmation.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hemiptera
Family	Ochteridae
Genus	Ochterus