Neotropical Scolopini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Anthocoridae): new taxa, diagnostic characters and a key to the genera of the tribe
Carpintero Diego Leonardo, Dellapé Pablo Matias
Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52(1): 49-66, 2012
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Abstract: The tribe Scolopini is characterized by having males with uradenia consisting of
paired glands with either a single or paired openings on abdominal sternum III
or IV (exceptionally on V), and females with copulatory tubes (not in
Calliodina), and by a midventral abdominal copulatory site. The tribe is
composed of two subtribes, Scolopina with four genera and Calliodina with seven
genera. Two new genera of Scolopini are proposed: Guayascoris foreroi, a new
genus and species of Calliodina from Ecuador, and Ameroscolopa, a new genus of
Scolopina including the two American species of Scoloposcelis Fieber, 1864:
Ameroscolopa flavicornis (Reuter, 1871) comb. nov. and A. basilicus (Drake &
Harris, 1926) comb. nov. Diagnostic characters, geographic distribution, species
included, and a key to all Neotropical genera of the tribe are also given.
Key words: Heteroptera, Anthocoridae, Scolopini, key, Guayascoris foreroi, Ameroscolopa, new genera, new species, Neotropical Region