Revisiting the South American Acanthocephalini (Hemiptera, Coreidae): Spilopleura Stål (status novum)

By

Olivera, Leonela
Melo, María Cecilia
Dellapé, Pablo Matías

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2023-1-3

Original Publication

Evolutionary systematics

Volume

7

Series / Issue

Issue: 1

Pages

35--50

Subjects

Acanthocephala , Heteroptera , Neotropical fauna , new genus

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Hamburg Centrum für Naturkunde (CeNak) 2017-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/evolsyst.7.94403

 

Abstract

The family Coreidae is composed of some of the larger terrestrial Heteroptera, with showy colors and expansions on the legs, the antenna or the pronotum. Among the Neotropical fauna, the tribe Acanthocephalini Stål, including 18 genera, is recognized by the strongly deflexed juga, and the conspicuously projecting tylus. In the same work in which Stål established the tribe, he described two new subgenera to the genusAcanthocephalaLaporte (currently synonymized under it): A. (Metapodius) (replaced forMetapodiessaKirkaldy) and A. (Spilopleura). In the present work, the subgeneric nameSpilopleurais removed from synonymy underAcanthocephalaand elevated to generic rank, and the speciesA. parensis(Dallas) andA. ochraceaMontandon are transferred therein. The genusSpilopleurastatus nov.and both included species are redescribed and illustrated, including characters from male and female genitalia; and a distributional map is given with the first records of the species from Argentina, Colombia, Paraguay, and Peru.