Opisthacidius pertinax ( Breddin, 1903 )

María C. Melo, Gimena Dellapé, Leonela Olivera, Pablo S. Varela, Sara I. Montemayor & Pablo M. Dellapé, 2017, Diversity of true bugs from Iguazú National Park, Argentina, Check List 13 (5), pp. 479-511 : 485

Opisthacidius pertinax ( Breddin, 1903)

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Distribution. Argentina: Chaco, Salta, Santiago del Estero, and Tucumán; Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Brisith Guiana, Ecuador, and Venezuela ( Lent and Wygodzinsky 1966).

Material examined. 1♂, P.N. Iguazú, XII-1979, Carpintero coll., PNI0102 (MACN).

Remarks. First record for Misiones province.

This species can be distinguished by the completely black scutellum, and the concolorous veins of hemelytra ( Lent and Wygodzinsky 1956).

Figures

Figure 2–13. Reduviidae. 2. Brontostoma castaneum Carpintero, 1980. 3. Brontostoma discus (Burmeister, 1835). 4. Cricetopareis paraguaya Carpintero, 1980. 5. Pothea martinezi Carpintero, 1980. 6. Apiomerus mutabilis Costa Lima, Campos Seabra and Hathaway, 1951. 6.a. A. mutabilis: median process of pygophore, posterior view. 7. Arilus carinatus (Forster, 1771), new country record. 8. Doldina lauta (Stål, 1860), new country record. 9-10. Graptocleptes sanguineiventris (Stål, 1866), new country record. 11. Heza multiannulata Stål, 1860, new country record. 12. Opisthacidius lutzi (Costa Lima, 1940), first record for Misiones province. 13. Opisthacidius pertinax (Breddin, 1903), first record for Misiones province.