Ambracius dufouri Stål, 1860

Ferreira, Paulo Sérgio Fiuza, Martins, David Dos Santos, Ferreira, Luciano Santana Fiuza & Fornazier, Maurício José, 2024, Synopsis of Miridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in Atlantic Forest Dominion, Espírito Santo State, Brazil: keys, diagnoses, new species, plant associations, and geographic distribution. Part I: Bryocorinae, Cylapinae and Deraeocorinae., Zootaxa 5468 (2), pp. 201-254 : 237-238

Ambracius dufouri Stål ( Fig. 9-A )

Ambracius dufouri Stål, 1860:59 (original description); Ferreira & Henry 2010:4 (review, descriptions, key species); Hernández & Henry 2010: 49 (synonymy, diagnosis, color habitus, male genitalia, pray); Schuh 2002 –2013 (online catalog).

Diagnosis. Head pale with a fuscous stripe emerging from of each antennal fossa and coalescing posteriorly on the vertex; a broad, longitudinal black stripe widening from the anterior to posterior margins of the pronotum or having large to small black spots on the disc and no yellowish dots on the calli; the uniformly fuscous scutellum; and the hemelytron with clavus mostly fuscous, the corium with a large basal transverse stripe reaching the embolium, and membrane uniformly hyaline or brown and lacking a stripe ( Ferreira & Henry 2010). Male genitalia as figure 13- A.

Prey. Ortheziidae ( Hemiptera : Sternorrhyncha) ( Hernández & Henry 2010). Ferreira & Henry (2010) documented Ambracius dufouri Stål preying on Orthezia sp. in Brazil.

Distribution. Brazil (Paraiba, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina, Espírito Santo: Vitória, Linhares), Colombia, Guatemala, Peru, Cuba ( Schuh 2002 –2013, Ferreira & Henry 2010, Hernández & Henry 2010).

Material examined. Brazil: Espírito Santo: 1♀, Linhares, Bioma Mata Atlântica, Col. Martins & Fiuza, 30/ XI/2016 .

Figures

FIGURE 9. Subfamily Deraeocorinae, A—Ambracius dufouri, B, C—Clivinema sp. C1-extended hood-like over head; D— Lundiella reinhardit, E—Lundiella rubra (Modified from Carvalho & Capriles, 1982, with permission), F—Annona fuscata G—Brasiliocarnus incaicus H—Carijoanus ruberfasciatus, I—Florus insolitus, J—Hyaliodes beckeri, K—Hyaliodocoris clarus, L—Hyaliodocoris insignis, M—Perissobais heroni.