Pelocoris poeyi (Guérin Méneville, 1835)

Rogers, D. Christopher & Cruz-Rivera, Edwin, 2021, A preliminary survey of the inland aquatic macroinvertebrate biodiversity of St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, Journal of Natural History 55 (13 - 14), pp. 799-850 : 826

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222933.2021.1923850

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6056877F-FF8C-FFF0-FE0F-186C84A3B113

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Pelocoris poeyi (Guérin Méneville, 1835)
status

 

Pelocoris poeyi (Guérin Méneville, 1835) View in CoL

This was the only naucorid we found. It is reported from the Caribbean Islands, and south to northern South America ( Nieser 1975; Naranjo et al. 2010; Lanigan and Hyslop 2011). We present the first record from St. Thomas, having found a single adult in the turtle pond by Dorothea ghut.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Naucoridae

Genus

Pelocoris

Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF