Pangaeus (Pangaeus) moestus (Stål), Stal

M, Cristina Mayorga & P, Luis Cervantes, 2009, Two new species of Amnestus from Guatemala, with new records for some other Guatemalan burrower bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cydnidae), Zootaxa 2311, pp. 19-37 : 32-33

Pangaeus (Pangaeus) moestus (Stål)

Diagnosis. This species can be delimited by the presence of two setigerous punctures on the costa, and the corium is polished. Body length 5.38 mm.

Head. Anterior margin a full semicircle; tylus as long as juga; surface shining, impunctate, with obsolete, radiating rugae; jugum with single submarginal puncture near eye; ocelli moderate; bucculae about half as high as labial II; rostrum attaining base of middle coxae. Pronotum. Anterior margin shallowly emarginated; lateral margin almost straight on basal half, with five setigerous punctures submarginally; transverse impression submedian, lightly impressed across full width; anterior lobe impunctate except for four to five punctures laterally; posterior lobe with less than ten punctures medially; propleuron shining, distinctly punctuate only in depression; prosternal carina less than half as high as rostral II; meso- and metapleuron with lateral area impunctate, evaporatorium with lateral margin straight. Scutellum. Disc polished, with sparse, scattered punctures. Hemelytra. Clavus and corium polished; clavus with one row of strong punctures; corium virtually impunctate except for one complete and interrupted second row of mesocorial punctures; costa with two setigerous punctures. Legs. Hind tibia without subbasal spine ventrally, posteroventral margin with four spines.

Old records. Acatenango ( Froeschner, 1960).

New records. 2 females, 2 males, Suchitepequez, Finca Los Tarrales, 10 km N of Patulul, 14° 32’24’’ N 91° 09’40’’, 1050m, 5/VI/2005, R. Zack (WSUC, UVGC, CNIN, IEXA).