Melucha lineatella (Fabricius, 1803)

Brailovsky, Harry & Barrera, Ernesto, 2014, Revisional notes on the genus Melucha (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Coreidae), Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 61 (1), pp. 15-22 : 15

Melucha lineatella (Fabricius, 1803) Fig. 6

Lygaeus lineatellus Fabricius, 1803: 216.

Melucha ruficornis Breddin, 1903: 379-380, syn. n.

Type material examined.

Melucha ruficornis : female, Bolivia, La Paz, Yungas (DEIC).

Taxonomy.

Melucha ruficornis Breddin, 1903, was described based on a single female from Bolivia and here is considered a junior synonym of Melucha lineatella (Fabricius, 1803). The holotype of Melucha ruficornis was examined and compared with several specimens of Melucha lineatella . The features considered by Breddin as diagnostic characters like the total length of the body, the shape of the humeral angles, and the color of antennal segments, pronotal disk and hind femora are shared with Melucha lineatella and this reinforces the proposed synonymy.