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Melucha quadrivittis
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, 1862
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Fig. 8
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, 1862: 276, stat. restit.
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:
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, 1870: 133 (synonymized with
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)
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<paragraph id="8ED392DD03528ED5D4A5A04C014A8E36" pageId="0" pageNumber="15">Type material examined.</paragraph>
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: male (NHRS).
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<paragraph id="CA2278A626E031C70CF47337324192B2" pageId="0" pageNumber="15">Distribution.</paragraph>
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Mexico, Oaxaca, Veracruz, Atoyac and Orizaba (
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1862
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,
<bibRefCitation id="C2D63C9754E85F331DBB399ACDFF7E73" author="Walker, F" journalOrPublisher="London" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" pagination="1 - 211" title="Catalogue of the specimens of Hemiptera-Heteroptera in the collection of the British Museum" year="1871">Walker 1871</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="C3B6D4DEB35F98A28FD5260FBC07C50D" author="Distant, WL" journalOrPublisher="Biologia Centrali-Americana, London" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" title="Insecta Rhynchota. Hemiptera-Heteroptera" year="1881 - 1893">Distant 1893</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="CBB019A5204B14CCA6457133BFD2F2F5" author="Packauskas, R" journalOrPublisher="Fort Hays Studies (Fourth Series)" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" pagination="1 - 270" title="Catalog of the Coreidae, or leaf-footed bugs of the New World" volume="5" year="2010">Packauskas 2010</bibRefCitation>
).
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<paragraph id="9D879FB4B9C529570AC5A3CD28ACD22C" pageId="0" pageNumber="15">Material examined.</paragraph>
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New records. Belize: 1 female, Grano de Oro, Chiquibul Forest Reserve, 4-7-IV-1995, T. King, A. Howe (UNAM). Costa Rica: 4 males, 4 females, Provincia Guanacaste, estacion Las pailas, P. N. Rincon de la Vieja, 800 m, 27-VII-12-X-1992, 15-V-11-VI-1993, 8-26-V-1994, C. Cano, D. Garcia, K. E. Taylor (INBIO); 3 males, 3 females, Provincia Guanacaste, Estacion Santa Rosa, P. N. Santa Rosa, 300 m, VIII-1980, VII-1989, II-1992, (without collector) (INBIO); 5 females, Provincia Puntarenas, Fca. Cafrosa, Estacion Las Mellizas, P. N. Amistad, 1300 m, X-1989, 7-XII-1989, 17-I-1990, M. Ramirez, G. Mora (INBIO). Honduras: 1 male, Liberia, 6-IX-1984, C. W.
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(UNAM); 1 female, Olancho, La Muralla, 24-V-1995, R. Morris (UGAG); 1 male, Copan, 19 km SW Santa Rosa de Copan, 8-X-1993, R. Turnbow (UGAG); 1 female, Cedros, Francisco Morazan, 2-XII-1976 (UMSP). Mexico: 1 female, Campeche, 6 mi N de Xpujil, Chicana Ruins, 27-VII-1980, Schaffner, Weaber (TAMU); 1 male, 13.8 mi E Escarcega, 26-27-VII-1980, Schaffner, Weaber (TAMU). 1 female, Chiapas, 2 mi E Rizo de Oro, 2900', 1-VIII-1974, C. W. and L.
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and Marshall (UNAM); 2 males, Chiapas, Municipio de Ocozocoautla, Reserva El Ocote, 2 km de A. Obregon, 14-IV-1994, O. Gomez (UNAM); 1 female, Chiapas, Bonampak, 21-V-1980, J. Bueno (UNAM); 1 female, Chiapas, Reserva El Ocote, 2-10-XII-1993, G. Ortega-Leon, E. Barrera and A. Casasola (UNAM); 1 male, Chiapas, Villa Corzo, 2-XI-1983, J. Morales (UNAM); 1 male, Nuevo Leon, Guadalupe, X-1980, A. Ortiz (UNAM); 2 females, Nuevo Leon, Rayones, 17-IV-1974, Patton (UNAM); 1 female, Oaxaca, Tuxtepec, 24-IX-1947 (UNAM); 1 male, Oaxaca, 2 mi N Candelaria Loxicha, 17-VII-1974, Clark, Schaffner (TAMU); 2 males, 1 female, Quintana Roo, X-Can Nuevo, 17-IX-1983, E. Welling (UNAM); 1 female, Quintana Roo, 8 mi N Felipe Carrillo Puerto, 1-VII-1970, R. E. Beer (UNAM); 1 female, Quintana Roo, 26 km SE Valle Hermoso, 22-VI-1989, A. Cadena, L. Cervantes (UNAM); 1 male, Quintana Roo, 3-VIII-1981, E. Pech (UNAM); 1 female, Quintana Roo, 2 km NE El Ramonal, 10-IX-1983, O. Canul (UNAM); 1 female, Quintana Roo, Puerto Morelos, 11-VIII-1982, V. Hernandez (UNAM); 1 female, San Luis Potosi, El Salto, IX-1959, D. Pelaez (UNAM). 1 male, Tabasco, Campo Experimental CSAT, Cardenas, 13-IX-1976, J. Rivera (UNAM). 1 male, 1 female, Tamaulipas, Ciudad Victoria, 17-XI-1977, H. Brailovsky (UNAM); 1 male, Tamaulipas, Tula, km 20 Tula-Ocampo, Colonia Guadalupe, 446 m,
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22°53
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N
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-
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99°28
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W
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, 12-V-2007, H. Brailovsky, E. Barrera and L. Cervantes-Peredo (UNAM). 7 males, 7 females, Veracruz,
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de
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Tropical Los Tuxtlas, III-1978, 20-XII-1984, 25-VIII-1998, 27-X-4-XI-1988, 15-27-VI-1989, 21-VII-1989, 6-IX-1989, 30-X-2007, H. Brailovsky, E. Gonzalez, E. Mejorada, H. Rojas, J. L. Colin and R.
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(UNAM). Nicaragua: 1 male, Chinaniloga, Volcan Casita, 10-VI-1985, Maes, Jolivet (MELN); 1 female, Matagalpa, Selva Negra, 1375 m, 28-XII-1991, A. E. Mahler (UNAM). Panama: 1 male, Chiriqui, Chiriquicito, 16-V-1996, R. Turnbow (UGAG); 1 male, Panama Prov., Cerro Campana, 11-IX-1998, Gillogly, Stockwell (TAMU).
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<paragraph id="2BA9A1EC66CAAADB794707622DFF9219" pageId="0" pageNumber="15">Taxonomy.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="D77D05813CD31EA660F48299C889F451" pageId="0" pageNumber="15">
<bibRefCitation id="E0A4D3B0BD67939B32D00E54AFECFB06" author="Burmeister, H" journalOrPublisher="T. Enslin., Berlin" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" title="Handbuch der Entomologie" year="1835">Burmeister (1835)</bibRefCitation>
described
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from Brazil, and
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(1862)
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from Mexico. Dallas (1852) recorded
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from Colombia and years later
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(1870)
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synonymized
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under
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and recorded this species from Mexico, Colombia (Nova Granada), Brazil and Paraguay.
<bibRefCitation id="2B530B4A5B7E8BD12268ABE34AF04AAF" author="Packauskas, R" journalOrPublisher="Fort Hays Studies (Fourth Series)" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" pagination="1 - 270" title="Catalog of the Coreidae, or leaf-footed bugs of the New World" volume="5" year="2010">Packauskas (2010)</bibRefCitation>
summarized the known information and cited
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s. lato from Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Paraguay. The type material of
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was examined and compared with the original description of
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, as well as with more than 110 specimens. Two different species were clearly recognized, therefore
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was resurrected here as valid species.
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<paragraph id="2AE1F52EC39A87CBEBFD436F807E9CEE" pageId="0" pageNumber="15">Both species share the following characters: total body length over 23.00 mm; anterolateral borders of pronotum coarsely serrate; pronotal disk yellow with four longitudinal dark lines; the humeral angles prominent, laterally expanded; and antennal segments II and III pale orange to yellowish orange.</paragraph>
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In
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the dorsal surface of hind femur is armed with two rows of black nodules and tubercles; it is distributed from Mexico to Panama (Fig. 8). In
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the dorsal surface of hind femur is smooth. It is distributed from Colombia to Paraguay, including Bolivia and Brazil (Fig. 9).
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Key to the known species of
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Amyot &amp; Serville, 1843
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<td id="B969BC6299FC689DC33369F7587A7FDC" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">1</td>
<td id="97E3650BC44BC0BCB5F7528F9A5B9303" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Anterolateral borders of pronotum very coarsely serrate; total length of body longer than 23.00 mm</td>
<td id="051D006B5408C86F2DF7AA8CF57B6E9E" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">2</td>
</tr>
<tr id="CC3A5DDFE700FAF2A57508F316C4783F" pageId="0" pageNumber="15">
<td id="471D5C0F1CC2D43B6EA734F2DEB068FA" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">-</td>
<td id="66C4F4863E3B64F21515C749AFFCC24C" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Anterolateral borders of pronotum smooth or finely serrate; total length of body shorter than 20.00 mm</td>
<td id="CBE59B2935CA148813BB38171B6D91AA" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">6</td>
</tr>
<tr id="88D8B29900DF627E98F33A0C318573B3" pageId="0" pageNumber="15">
<td id="65BE1675041DB7C5511A83FC034D0806" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">2</td>
<td id="BFEBFC81EB019944710369DB1B1A46BE" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Antennal segments II and III dark reddish-brown to black</td>
<td id="5D98ADB3FC08CC8A7928E617F65B688C" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">3</td>
</tr>
<tr id="CED8D81F0A613F9A6AA1F45BC965527D" pageId="0" pageNumber="15">
<td id="34D37ACC6E1AC4DF66DD5EB31649B65E" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">-</td>
<td id="883EAC6BABD9F447F3235E18DFAD58C6" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Antennal segments II and III pale orange to pale yellowish orange</td>
<td id="B81CBDF1B513C27A58D3AF5780A32DC5" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">4</td>
</tr>
<tr id="39C77A16E9CD9F41DB6CFD6A728B3D36" pageId="0" pageNumber="15">
<td id="E33482BB44DA2C02BD5AC22589FA7FB4" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">3</td>
<td id="28820D2D5BA3DB6E4C7FFE54739B2536" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Pronotal disk dark reddish-brown; dorsal surface of hind femora dark reddish- brown and ventral surface dull orange</td>
<td id="15CA7E531A6D0B4E6F8A6A397A20F64B" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName id="9E32A7BB662E696C6D0DFF68DE2DC0FB" class="Insecta" family="Coreidae" genus="Melucha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melucha bicolor" order="Hemiptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bicolor">Melucha bicolor</taxonomicName>
Distant, 1892
</td>
</tr>
<tr id="77A902167F103727CE9544ECDE69B1CA" pageId="0" pageNumber="15">
<td id="A3E89827259229550440956560CA5FB2" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">-</td>
<td id="A3483182F31115B7A5264C2C4E198F5C" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Pronotal disk yellow with four longitudinal dark brown lines; hind femora yellow with ventral spines black (Fig. 12)</td>
<td id="44D85DC149471FCD3CDE862AC03F481E" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName id="6FB23181FDA6C997ADF181B69B126AE8" class="Insecta" family="Coreidae" genus="Melucha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melucha perampla" order="Hemiptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="perampla">Melucha perampla</taxonomicName>
sp. n.
</td>
</tr>
<tr id="B215A5092D577C80B07EC139769CF07A" pageId="0" pageNumber="15">
<td id="2B0D7E23E6D2F1DE7E95732D85EBC77C" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">4</td>
<td id="B02BBE7A163658F65301A78912F1DEE5" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Pronotal disk reddish-brown, with a single longitudinal median dark line; humeral angles of pronotum prominent, laterally expanded, and apically sharply pointed (Fig. 11)</td>
<td id="547B81BC2EE4BA2EFF3128F29F040CD7" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName id="0E1DD4934948F4D2F91567B10427178B" class="Insecta" family="Coreidae" genus="Melucha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melucha grandicula" order="Hemiptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="grandicula">Melucha grandicula</taxonomicName>
sp. n.
</td>
</tr>
<tr id="436F724829B3B206F65AD3FEF14DBFF9" pageId="0" pageNumber="15">
<td id="7ED5D46E5DEFD44D0FB7BC33162143E1" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">-</td>
<td id="A5CBDD429EAE2CD001EDB9934C14CBFD" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Pronotal disk yellow with four longitudinal dark lines; humeral angles of pronotum prominent, laterally expanded, and apically blunt to nodulose</td>
<td id="C385A45FD609C2447FCB6F859C7912F0" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">5</td>
</tr>
<tr id="2A5188FD69BA5B9163B7C67A81D90363" pageId="0" pageNumber="15">
<td id="4B86FF9E1B45E6D8429E8162F13B51F8" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">5</td>
<td id="A3B057947CA6F2A1D7A7638B8472C9ED" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Dorsal surface of hind femur armed with two rows of black nodules and tubercles (Fig. 8)</td>
<td id="5408397422770A2E01A6C7E10E6B3D5D" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName id="422BDF69FCA605E74B5CCA9422804A24" class="Insecta" family="Coreidae" genus="Melucha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melucha quadrivittis" order="Hemiptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="quadrivittis">Melucha quadrivittis</taxonomicName>
<normalizedToken id="5F8CD4B56EFD1C0AA3467D3E9BCA2C1D" originalValue="Stål">Stal</normalizedToken>
, 1862
</td>
</tr>
<tr id="06EF8ECBFF9C3D410338472DD59BB059" pageId="0" pageNumber="15">
<td id="25569B802E3C40EF547481ED797BBBA2" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">-</td>
<td id="DA4F9C7E712188192D78B1D8B0261443" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Dorsal surface of hind femur smooth (Fig. 9)</td>
<td id="6CD7FC1B3D9F198F3630291F4043E767" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName id="29C96973FBA5446BDD7A75A86C9D6635" class="Insecta" family="Coreidae" genus="Melucha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melucha phyllocnemis" order="Hemiptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="phyllocnemis">Melucha phyllocnemis</taxonomicName>
(Burmeister, 1835)
</td>
</tr>
<tr id="6E7B08A15460E2A66497D671CAEBC6F9" pageId="0" pageNumber="15">
<td id="AF66D85875C4EDD55E6B2E762354D008" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">6</td>
<td id="5B14D422E859BE3D84AA2F954E90C39A" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Anterolateral borders of pronotum uniformly crenulate; humeral angles laterally expanded, apically sharply pointed</td>
<td id="F5B42077B70378B668245FD5A857E1AF" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">7</td>
</tr>
<tr id="45D4F6719DD1485D532E888B100761E3" pageId="0" pageNumber="15">
<td id="0A16387DDC6DF528AB55EBDCE52FA5EF" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">-</td>
<td id="C52DD0EDBF0D7E996DD81CA1872650CF" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Anterolateral borders of pronotum smooth; humeral angles obtuse, not exposed, with or without short spine directed backward</td>
<td id="B9111B7086E90B96FFE9D9B3209EB38E" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">10</td>
</tr>
<tr id="6A8ADA6D9B34C064CBAF8D93C84840B1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15">
<td id="45EA79422B9B4BCA6308537E3F68F74C" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">7</td>
<td id="3E1F9C64AD443C53211DA2E4D783F6B5" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Antennal segments I to III entirely shiny orange; anterolateral borders of pronotum shiny orange (Fig. 7)</td>
<td id="7EF7406EDB556EB383A8023B4802ABE3" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName id="8BB9E9022400265BB50962457CDB4964" class="Insecta" family="Coreidae" genus="Melucha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melucha gladiator" order="Hemiptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="gladiator">Melucha gladiator</taxonomicName>
(Fabricius, 1803)
</td>
</tr>
<tr id="D74E064F3D41578CD4B5F320B6264772" pageId="0" pageNumber="15">
<td id="1A2CAA665420F410A5A72E2EFDAABFB5" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">-</td>
<td id="EF818F6AEC802AD17B399A83005C1FD5" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Antennal segments I to III predominantly or entirely black or dark reddish brown; anterolateral borders of pronotum black</td>
<td id="E60A346D037240EB1819366BC08385C1" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">8</td>
</tr>
<tr id="455E78ED16C73DF93B8EA815CC1CDAE8" pageId="0" pageNumber="15">
<td id="129D6EDCBA33B9BFB5AA7FEC179D8551" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">8</td>
<td id="E265058E09FFACF92D410C5E62C9DC66" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Antennal segment IV dark brown with basal third (except basal joint) yellow (Fig. 1)</td>
<td id="510A8E906438565190A3DFFFB0829253" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName id="3A125D5A116984746A196B119AA38313" class="Insecta" family="Coreidae" genus="Melucha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melucha aculeata" order="Hemiptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="aculeata">Melucha aculeata</taxonomicName>
Montandon, 1895
</td>
</tr>
<tr id="576F3B05AA9F76A5616A53E55383FEF0" pageId="0" pageNumber="15">
<td id="4E339622B44BE053BDE4808D0862552D" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">-</td>
<td id="6D9BA3B175B56FA1CA811C3F40F2DC75" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Antennal segment IV entirely dark brown to black</td>
<td id="BE78BCA0200C653488AC5D741065414F" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">9</td>
</tr>
<tr id="ACA75EBE925FBC4F02B4FE01F03AB545" pageId="0" pageNumber="15">
<td id="BCAAC78E4276020CC26613C43832CF11" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">9</td>
<td id="218E33074628AAB36C70A5ADC34E0968" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Hemelytral membrane brassy with basal third black; antennal segment III bicolorous (Fig. 2)</td>
<td id="CC0A7F2DA63CB640398BDE350AD0D172" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName id="CBEC359963C8B5054661FC2B403855D7" class="Insecta" family="Coreidae" genus="Melucha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melucha biolleyi" order="Hemiptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="biolleyi">Melucha biolleyi</taxonomicName>
Distant, 1900
</td>
</tr>
<tr id="FD3A94D1603A063BB4D2D482B98AA96F" pageId="0" pageNumber="15">
<td id="E28BA69E41FBFA0B4A26FA6B462B9840" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">-</td>
<td id="5C660792CDC1F1F6BE6F2B9CBBB41E6F" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Hemelytral membrane uniformly brassy, without black spot basally; antennal segment III entirely black (Fig. 4)</td>
<td id="FF8BD65B0263A7A29D26C65CF65E3276" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName id="DD1B18BE77231D7C3693FA149930DBDC" class="Insecta" family="Coreidae" genus="Melucha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melucha acutispina" order="Hemiptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="acutispina">Melucha acutispina</taxonomicName>
Breddin, 1903
</td>
</tr>
<tr id="575D3C4C3A2829B4401A21A380B68481" pageId="0" pageNumber="15">
<td id="BCBE5EBF51D6C45BE8AA6247406BA4D4" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">10</td>
<td id="62DA84928CF0595EF19057D0B1B455F0" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Antennal segment IV dark brown with basal third (except basal joint) yellow (Fig. 3)</td>
<td id="809983AC36E62FB8658CE51EDCCFF697" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName id="2D935D36C6F3FE735887741737142D8A" class="Insecta" family="Coreidae" genus="Melucha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melucha dilatata" order="Hemiptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="dilatata">Melucha dilatata</taxonomicName>
(Fabricius, 1798)
</td>
</tr>
<tr id="3E5F166F40BB5C306DCE1B84910397A7" pageId="0" pageNumber="15">
<td id="4F6B22AB4E04528B9D4FFDEA6F4007F2" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">-</td>
<td id="7B1B74AD586ED3C537AF91A228025BF3" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Antennal segment IV entirely dark brown or dark reddish brown or shiny reddish orange</td>
<td id="06BB51A30267E506890E03E48BF58265" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">11</td>
</tr>
<tr id="429BCDC94FC858BC2D9AEEF6A5EB7755" pageId="0" pageNumber="15">
<td id="72509489C791E35BEB4E449D243F0E4F" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">11</td>
<td id="863B2D74B7291736C17DEDED102CE42F" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Antennal segments I to III shiny orange to shiny reddish brown; pronotal disk shiny yellow with three black to reddish-bown longitudinal stripes (Fig. 10)</td>
<td id="7F4EBF290018588B2717417D5C38A997" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName id="961A911919531AA5B0C0B1011295370B" class="Insecta" family="Coreidae" genus="Melucha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melucha quinquelineata" order="Hemiptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="quinquelineata">Melucha quinquelineata</taxonomicName>
<normalizedToken id="A929335357FFE89E74C63BE17C3BB26E" originalValue="Stål">Stal</normalizedToken>
, 1865
</td>
</tr>
<tr id="5859297B6ECB70A4EE3FDF824FD13312" pageId="0" pageNumber="15">
<td id="B5C82B790089D45142F8FBF23C3762D9" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">-</td>
<td id="176E2DE9673C957501BD22D1B077EBD2" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Antennal segments I to III never shiny orange; pronotal disk yellow with one black to reddish brown longitudinal stripe running mesially</td>
<td id="3C80A26727EF63DFD15C81F10240F5C7" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">12</td>
</tr>
<tr id="3C9C5CC9FC71BE788E27845DD835FF0C" pageId="0" pageNumber="15">
<td id="4CF02FFC34B8DD873223DF179C7521B4" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">12</td>
<td id="69B2D2D87CC9FF2065FE7E33E0255B73" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Antennal segments II and III reddish-brown with basal joint yellow (Fig. 5)</td>
<td id="7CCECDCB3029E6B273BF3358F902C91E" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName id="DAE3726BA3CEA0BD944746A861F306D0" class="Insecta" family="Coreidae" genus="Melucha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melucha chapadana" order="Hemiptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="chapadana">Melucha chapadana</taxonomicName>
Brailovsky, 1993
</td>
</tr>
<tr id="B9681BB07AC3A8532A5E019C3C4E376E" pageId="0" pageNumber="15">
<td id="104FA5253ABB1BF99E30C9706AF6FD02" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">-</td>
<td id="9441C51CB37429FAB71FBDC9F2F8DC67" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Antennal segments II and III entirely reddish-brown (Fig. 6)</td>
<td id="074B7B17BE34E8DA0B02944331347264" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName id="24653DB41DBF9A0B5E55862914301205" class="Insecta" family="Coreidae" genus="Melucha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melucha lineatella" order="Hemiptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="lineatella">Melucha lineatella</taxonomicName>
(Fabricius, 1798)
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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