Pharypia pulchella (Drury, 1782)

Castro-Huertas, Valentina, Grazia, Jocelia, Forero, Dimitri, Fernández, Fernando & Schwertner, Cristiano F., 2022, Stink bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) of Colombia: An annotated checklist of species, Zootaxa 5097 (1), pp. 1-88 : 67

Pharypia pulchella (Drury, 1782) [ Fig. 100 ]

Distribution. Mexico, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil.

Distribution in Colombia. Amazonas.

Remarks. Pharypia pulchella has a unique coloration pattern: blue greenish metallic, with red and black maculae. Some specimens have a black and yellow pattern, resembling the genus Arocera , but the species of Pharypia can be identified by the metasternum and the abdominal spine developed.

References. Kirkaldy 1909; Rolston et al. 1980; De los Santos et al. 2016.

Examined material. COLOMBIA: 2♀, Amazonas, PNN Amacayacu, río Cotuhe, Caño Lorena , 6 viii 1990, F. Fernández / IAvH-E 05032 (IAvH-E); idem, 1 vi 1990, F. Fernández / IAvH-E 05031 (IAvH-E) .

Figures

FIGURES 96‒108. Pentatominae genera in Colombia. 96. Elsiella plana (MPUJ). 97. Neotibilis parva (MPUJ). 98. Pellaea stictica (MPUJ). 99. Phalaecus sp. (IAVH). 100. Pharypia pulchella (MPUJ). 101. Placocoris sp. (MPUJ). 102. Serdia delphis (MPUJ). 103. Taurocerus achilles (MPUJ). 104. Piezodorus guildinii (MPUJ). 105. Odmalea concolor (MPUJ). 106. Pseudobebaeus truncatus (UFRG). 107. Murgantia bifasciata (ICN). 108. Patanius vittatus (MZUSP). Scale bar: 5 mm.