Pnirontis edentula (Berg)

Diez, Fernando & Coscaron, Maria del Carmen, 2014, The Stenopodainae (Hemiptera, Heteroptera) of Argentina, ZooKeys 452, pp. 51-77 : 64-65

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.452.6519

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

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scientific name

Pnirontis edentula (Berg)
status

 

Taxon classification Animalia Hemiptera Reduviidae

Pnirontis edentula (Berg) View in CoL

Centromelus edentulus Berg, 1879: 275; Coscarón 1998: 4.

Pnirontis edentula Lethierry & Severin, 1896: 81; Barber 1930: 171; Wygodzinsky 1949: 68; Maldonado Capriles 1990: 525.

Pnirontes (Centromelus) edentulus Pennington, 1921: 22.

Diagnosis.

(After Barber 1930) Scapus shorter than pronotum and about twice as long as preocular margin of head. Antenniferous tubercles long, about 1/4 longer than eye. Pronotum longer than wide.

Material examined.

Buenos Aires: 1♀ (MLP) (unspecified locality). Corrientes: 1♀ (MLP) San Roque (28°34'31.1736"S, 58°42'31.032"W). Between Corrientes and Formosa provinces: 1♂ 1♀ (MLP) (unspecified locality). Formosa: 2♂ (MLP) Laguna Oca (26°14'0.0234"S, 58°11'59.9742"W).

Distribution in Argentina.

Argentina: Buenos Aires.

Observation.

First record for Corrientes and Formosa provinces.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Reduviidae

Genus

Pnirontis