ACANTHOSOMATIDAE SIGNORET

Coscarón, María Del Carmen, 2017, A catalogue of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) or true bugs of Argentina, Zootaxa 4295 (1), pp. 1-432 : 10

FAMILY ACANTHOSOMATIDAE SIGNORET

JOCELIA GRAZIA, CRISTIANO F. SCHWERTNER AND MARIA DEL CARMEN COSCARÓN

Listed below are the 19 species in 12 genera, belonging to Ditomotarsini (Ditomotarsinae) and Lanopini (Blaudusinae) , for which the Argentinean records have been found. Collecting should add several more to this list. This group of heteropterans has often been considered a subfamily or a tribe of an inclusive Pentatomidae ( Schuh and Slater 1995) . It was first recognized as a higher taxon by Signoret (1863). This family is predominantly from Southern Hemisphere; Kumar (1974) revised the world fauna, offering keys to the known genera. Infrafamilial classification includes three subfamilies: Acanthosomatinae , Blaudusinae with two tribes Blaudusini and Lanopini , and Ditomotarsinae , also with two tribes, Ditomotarsini and Laccophorellini ( Kumar 1974, Froeschner 1999b).