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.
Author
Ferreira, Paulo Sérgio Fiuza
Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Departamento de Entomologia (Full Professor retired), Avenida Peter Henry Rolfs, s / n, Viçosa, MG 36570 - 900, Brazil.
Author
Martins, David Dos Santos
Instituto Capixaba de Pesquisa, Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rural, Rua Afonso Sarlo, 160, Bento Ferreira, Vitória / ES 29052 - 010, Brazil.
Author
Ferreira, Luciano Santana Fiuza
Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Bacharelando em Cooperativismo, Departamento de Economia Rural, Edifício Edson Potsch Magalhães-R. Purdue, Campus Universitário, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Author
Fornazier, Maurício José
Instituto Capixaba de Pesquisa, Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rural (Incaper), Domingos Martins, ES, Brazil.
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Pycnoderes quadrimaculatus
Guérin-Menèville
(
Fig. 6-P
)
Pycnoderes quadrimaculatus
Guérin-Menèville, 1857:404
; Schuh 2003–2013 (online catalog, hosts, distribution);
Knight 1968:77
(biology);
Capriles 1969:20
(description);
Carvalho & Ferreira 1972:162
(list);
Alayo 1974:21
(diagnosis); Carvalho 1980B:647 (diagnosis,
type
specimen);
Hernández & Henry 2010:41
(synonymy, diagnosis, color habitus, male genitalia, host, information); Alvarez-Zapata 2022:134 (diagnosis, key to species of
Colombia
, host, distribution).
Diagnosis.
Overall coloration is black, with areas of pale white and yellowish brown. Body oval or oblong, with silvery spots on the hemelytra. The head with vertex; front with a median line; and the clypeus with black apex. Pronotum disc greatly inflated with weakly grooved on median area. Hemelytra with an enlarged embolium and a pale subbasal spot about twice the length of the smaller apical spot. Male genitalia as figure. 11-K.
Plant Associations.
Alvarez-Zapata
et al.
(2022):
Amaranthus
sp.
(
Amaranthaceae
) (
Ferreira
et al.
2001
A),
Zantedeschia aethiopica
(L.) Spreng. (
Araceae
) (Nogueira
et al.
2019A),
Lactuca sativa
L. (
Asteraceae
),
Brassica rapa
L. (
Brassicaceae
) (USDA 1941),
Ipomoea
sp.
(
Convolvulaceae
) (
Hernández & Henry 2010
),
Citrullus lanatus
(Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai
(
Cucurbitaceae
) (
Wehrle 1935
),
Cucumis dipsaceus
Ehrenb. Ex Spach
(
Cucurbitaceae
) (
Zimmerman 1948
),
Cucumis melo
L. (
Cucurbitaceae
) (
Wehrle 1935
),
Cucurbita maxima
Duchesne
(
Cucurbitaceae
) (
Ferreira
et al.
2001
),
Cucurbita pepo
L. (Cucurbitacae),
Cucurbita
“
sativus
” (
Cucurbitaceae
) (
Hernández & Henry 2010
),
Phaseolus vulgaris
L. (
Fabaceae
) (
Ferreira
et al.
2001
),
Vigna unguiculata
(L.) Walp. (
Fabaceae
) (Nogueira
et al.
2019A),
Carya illinoinensis
(Wangenh.) K. Koch
(
Juglandaceae
) (Life 2019),
Saccharum
spp
. (
Poaceae
) (
Salazar
et al.
2017
) and
Portulaca
sp.
(
Portulacaceae
) (
Zimmerman 1948
).
Distribution.
Alvarez-Zapata
at al.
(2022):
Argentina
(
Carpintero & Carvalho 1993
),
Brazil
:
Espírito Santo
(Jerônimo Monteiro (
Vélez
et al.
2020
), Domingos Martins, Aracruz,
Mato Grosso
,
Minas Gerais
,
Piaui
)
Colombia
(
Nariño
,
Putumayo
) (
Carvalho & Afonso 1977
; Alvarez-Zapata
at al.
2022),
Costa Rica
(
Hemp & Konrad 2000
),
Cuba (
Guérin-Menèville 1857
)
,
Dominican Republic
(Carvalho 1951A),
Guatemala
(
Carvalho & Afonso 1977
),
Honduras
(Carvalho 1951A),
Mexico
(Alvarez-Zapata
at al.
2022),
Nicaragua
,
Panama
(
Carvalho & Afonso 1977
),
Peru
(
Carvalho 1991
;
Carvalho & Ferreira 1972
),
Puerto Rico
,
Surinam
(Carvalho & Rosas 1965),
U.S.A.
(
Uhler 1894
;
Zimmerman 1948
),
Venezuela
(
Cazorla-Perfetti & Morales-Moreno 2019
), West Indies (Van Duzze 1917;
Uhler 1894
).