Plaxiscelis pagana ( Burmeister, 1835 )

María C. Melo, Gimena Dellapé, Leonela Olivera, Pablo S. Varela, Sara I. Montemayor & Pablo M. Dellapé, 2017, Diversity of true bugs from Iguazú National Park, Argentina, Check List 13 (5), pp. 479-511 : 494

Plaxiscelis pagana ( Burmeister, 1835)

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Distribution. Argentina; Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay ( Brailovsky and Barrera 2007, Packauskas 2010).

Material examined. 1♀, 20-XI-2008, Zamudio, Colleselli & Gómez de Olivera colls., PNI0452 ( MLP) ; 1♂, 20-XI-2008, Zamudio, Colleselli & Gómez de Olivera colls., PNI0453 (MLP).

Remarks. First record for Misiones province.

This species can be distinguished from the other species of the genus by the unicolorous basi and distiflagellomere, the unicolorous hind tibiae and bicolorous hind femur that is mostly yellow with the blackish apical third, the glabrous pronotal disk, and propleuron, mesopleuron and metapleuron with a large black discoidal spot ( Brailovsky and Barrera 2007).

Figures

Figure 25–33. Coreidae. 25. Leptoglossus lonchoides Allen, 1969, new country record. 26. Chariesterus armatus (Thunberg, 1825). 27. Scamurius marianae Brailovsky, 1986. 28. Madura fuscoclavata fuscoclavata Stål, 1860. 29. Catorhintha divergens Barber, 1926. 30. Catorhintha duplicata Brailovsky & García,1987, new country record. 31. Quintius dentifer Stål,1870, new country record. 32. Plaxiscelis pagana (Burmeister, 1835). 33. Spartocera dentiventris Berg, 1883.