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32. GENUS STICTOPELTA Stal 



Stictopelta Stal, Hem. Fabr. II : 32 (1869). 

 Leptosticta Stal, Hem. Fabr. II : 32 (1869). 

 Cryptoptera Butler, Cist. Ent. II : 342 (1878). 



Characteps : Laige, slender, smooth-bodied forms which fjreatly resemble the species of 

 Darnis but may at once be distinguished from that genus by the venation of the tegmina. The head is 

 subquadrate, twice as broad as long, with the inferior margin rounded, the clypeus not projecting below 

 the genae, and the ocelli much nearer to each other than to the eyes. The pronotum is smooth, shining, 

 very weakly punctate, not pubescent, with no processes except the posterior extension which is long, 

 arcuate, acuminate, and projects backward beyond the tips of thetegmina. A characteristic lobe of 

 the inferior margin of the pronotum is to be noted just behind the eyes. The tegmina are long, nai row, 

 hyahne, with five apical cells and an irregular number (but usually three) of discoidal cells and are 

 about half concealed by the sides of the pronotum. The corium has two prominent longitudinal veins, 

 both forked at about the middle as in the preceding genus. The species Jlaviceps Burmeister, which 

 Stal designated as the type of his subgenus Leptostida, defiiiitely belongs in Stictopelta so that tlie genus 

 Leptoslicta as recognized by Butler (1878) cannot stand. 



Type adusta Burmeister. 



Geographical distribution : The genus has a very wide range and has been fouiid from 

 Southern South America through Central America and Mexico and in the United States, in which areas 

 a considerable number of species are considered valid as follows : 



I. acuttda Fairmaire, Rev. Memb. 481. i3 (1846). — Pl. 3, fig. 29. 



brevis Fairmaire, Rev Memb. 483. 18 (1846). 



2. adusta Burmeister. Rev. Silb IV : 170. 2 (i836). 



bipunctata Burmeister, Rev. Silb. IV : 171. 4 (i836). 

 polita Butler, Cist. Ent. II : 339 (1878). 



3. arizona Goding, Can. Ent. XXVII : 276 (iSgS). 



4. assimilis Fowler, B. C. A. II : Sj. 7 (i8g5). 



5. carulea Ball, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. XLVI : 28 (1933). 



6. cruentata Burmeister, Rev. Silb. IV : 173. 8 (i836). 



7. flavicef^s Burmeister, Rev. Silb. IV : 169. i (i836). 



limbala Burmeister, Rev. Silb. IV : 175. 10 (i836). 



8. fraterna Butler, Cist. Ent. II : 340. 9 (1878). 



9. hinnuleus Fowler, B. C. A. II : 57. 8 (1895). 



10. incerta Walker, List Hom. B. M. SuppL 149 (i858). 



11. indeterminata Walker, List Hom. B. M. SuppL 148 (i858). 



luisa Berg, Ann. Soc. Cien. Arg. XVI : 289. i63 (i883). 



12. latilinea Walker, List Hom. B. M. SuppL 147 (i858), 

 i3. lineifrons Fowler. B. C. A. II : 58. g (i8g5). 



14. marmorata Goding, Ent. News III : 201 (1892). 

 i5. nigrifrons Fowler, B. C. A. II : 58. 11 (iSg^). 



Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, 



Brazil, Uruguay. 

 Mexico. 



United States. 



Guatemala. 



United States. 



BraziL 



Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina. 



Peru, Mexico. 



Mexico. 



Mexico, Yucatan. 



Brazil, Mexico, Honduras, 

 Argentina, Guatemala, Pa- 

 nama, British Guiana. 



Brazil, Uruguay. 



Mexico. 



United States. 



Mexico. 



