Calliodis Reuter, 1871

Carpintero, Diego Leonardo & Dellapé, Pablo Matías, 2012, Neotropical Scolopini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Anthocoridae): new taxa, diagnostic characters and a key to the genera of the tribe, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 (1), pp. 49-66 : 55

Calliodis Reuter, 1871

( Figs. 1 , 16 )

Calliodis Reuter, 1971: 558 . Type species: Calliodis picturatus Reuter, 1871 .

Diagnostic characters. Head short, shiny. Rostrum reaching median coxae. Pronotum rugose, punctured, shiny; lateral margins carinated; scutellum shiny on basal half and pruinose on apical half. Hemelytra punctured, pruinose, and with long and dense pubescence. Metasternum rounded, medially carinated. Legs long, femora not enlarged, fore tibiae with fossula spongiosa. Left paramere slightly curved, knife-shaped with apex acute having a deep median groove. Ostiolar peritreme short and curved forward; apically rounded with an excentric small acute tip. Median sulcus nearly reaching the apical portion of peritreme ( Fig. 16 ).

Studied material. Calliodis picturatus Reuter, 1871 : ARGENTINA: BUENOS AIRES: Tigre, I-1938, on mushroom, 10 JJ 7 ♀♀, Viana lgt. ( MACN). CÓRDOBA: La Serranita, I-1981, 1 ♀, Carpintero lgt. ( MACN). MISIONES: Dto. Concepción, Santa María, X-1947, 1 ♀, M. J. Viana lgt. ( MACN).

Figures

Figs. 1–9. 1 – Calliodis pallescens (Reuter, 1884); 2 – Eulasiocolpus megalops Champion, 1900; 3 – Guayascoris foreroi gen. & sp. nov.; 4 – Lepidonannella opaca (Poppius, 1909); 5 – Nidicola mitra Drake & Herring, 1964; 6 – Opisthypselus punctaticollis Reuter, 1908; 7 – Zopherocoris armatus (Stål, 1860); 8 – Scolopella brasiliensis Carayon, 1954; 9 – Scolopocoris gracilicornis (Poppius, 1909). Scale bars = 1 mm.

Figs. 16–21. 16 – Calliodis pallescens Reuter, 1884, ostiolar peritreme. 17, 18 – Eulasiocolpus megalops Champion, 1900: 17 – ostiolar peritreme; 18 – detail of evaporatorium. 19–21 – Lepidonannella opaca (Poppius, 1909): 19 – scales on pronotum; 20 – ostiolar peritreme, 21 – detail of evaporatorium.