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Issue: Vol. 2866 No. 1: 4 May. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-05-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2866.1.4
Page range: 55–60
Abstract views: 56
PDF downloaded: 2

Redescription of Callostethus Ruckes, 1961 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Discocephalinae) with the description of C. flavolineatus sp. nov.

Universidade Federal do Pará, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Av. Augusto Correa #1 66075–110, Belém, Pará, Brazil
Departmento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Universidade Federal do Pará, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Av. Augusto Correa #1 66075–110, Belém, Pará, Brazil Programa de Pós–Graduação em Zoologia, CAPES fellowship
Hemiptera Callostethus flavolineatus new species Discocephalini Neotropical region taxonomy

Abstract

The genus Callostethus was described for Mecistorhinus guttatopunctatus (Fabricius, 1803). Here we describe a second species of the genus, C. flavolineatus sp. nov., based on a male collected in Amapá, Brazil. Descriptions were made using external morphological characters. Callostethus is closely allied to Antiteuchus and can be separated from it by the mesosternum slightly tumid with a low median subcalloused carina, calloused yellow or reddish margin of the metapleuron, and the structure of the pygophore.

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