Diversity of true bugs from Iguazú National Park, Argentina
Author
María C. Melo
Author
Gimena Dellapé
Author
Leonela Olivera
Author
Pablo S. Varela
Author
Sara I. Montemayor
Author
Pablo M. Dellapé
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2017-09-22
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journal article
10.15560/13.5.479
243064a9-76d7-48c8-b378-31b5aacf9ad7
1809-127X
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Cymodema breviceps
(Stål, 1874)
(
Fig. 46
)
http://lsid.speciesfile.org/urn:lsid:Lygaeoidea.speciesfile. org:TaxonName:480101
Distribution.
Argentina
:
Buenos Aires
and Corrientes (
Melo et al. 2004
,
Dellapé and Carpintero 2012
,
Dellapé 2014
);
Bahamas
,
British Guiana
,
Cuba
,
Mexico
,
Puerto Rico
, St Vincent,
Trinidad
,
USA
, and
Virgin Islands
(
Slater 1964
).
Material examined.
1♀,
XI-1990
, D.L. Carpintero coll., PNI0889 (MLP).
Remarks.
First record for
Misiones province
.
Members of this group are small brownish to yellow and coarsely punctate insects that closely resemble the seeds of the sedges upon which they live.
Cymodema breviceps
is the only species of the family recorded from
Argentina
.