Stink bugs (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Pentatomidae) of the Catimbau National Park, a protected area in Brazil’s largest dry forest
Author
Brito, Lucas Cavalcanti
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Diversidade Biológica e Conservação nos Trópicos, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil. Laboratório de Sistemática e Diversidade de Artrópodes, Unidade Educacional Penedo, Campus Arapiraca, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Penedo, Alagoas, Brazil
lucascavalcanti.b@gmail.com
Author
Grazia, Jocelia
Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto e Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Author
Barão, Kim Ribeiro
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Diversidade Biológica e Conservação nos Trópicos, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil. Laboratório de Sistemática e Diversidade de Artrópodes, Unidade Educacional Penedo, Campus Arapiraca, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Penedo, Alagoas, Brazil
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Zootaxa
2019
2019-05-31
4612
4
571
580
journal article
26614
10.11646/zootaxa.4612.4.9
0ef582e8-21d9-4539-85e9-57c93b1d9404
1175-5326
3235916
31A160B2-0701-4B62-8CE0-901CB33C43E9
Tetragonotum megacephalum
Ruckes, 1965
(
Fig. 3B
)
Distribution.
Brazil
: BA (
Ruckes 1965
), PE (new record).
Examined material.
26.IX.2017
(
2 immature
),
28.IX.2017
(
4 immature
),
30.X.2017
(
1 immature
),
21.IV.2018
(
2 immature
),
24.IV.2018
(
1 immature
),
09.VI.2018
(
5 immature
,
1 ♂
),
13.VII.2018
(
1 immature
),
09.VIII.2018
(
2 immature
),
10.VIII.2018
(
3 immature
).
Comments.
Tetragonotum megacephalum
is known only by the
holotype
, a female collected in Iguassu,
Bahia
,
Brazil
(
Ruckes 1965
). We believe this locality is now on the premises of Itaeté,
Bahia
, also in the Caatinga biome. We have collected 21 immature specimens during both the dry and rainy season and a single male specimen in the rainy season in the Catimbau National Park. The identification of the immature specimens was unequivocal, because of the resemblance between immature and adult morphology. We include the immature of this species due to the species rarity in entomological collections and studies.
Rolston (1990)
includes
T
.
megacephalum
in the
Discocephalini
within a group of genera that have the interocular width equal to or greater than the length of the head and provides a dichotomous key to identify such genera.