Taxon classification Animalia Hemiptera Reduviidae

Pnirontis scorpiona (Berg)

Centromelus scorpionius Berg, 1879: 276; Coscarón 1998: 6.

Pnirontes (Centromelus) scorpionius Pennington, 1921: 22.

Pnirontis corpionia Barber, 1930: 161; Wygodzinsky 1949: 68; Giacchi 1985: 65; Maldonado Capriles 1990: 526; Coscarón 2003: 361.

Pnirontis scorpionica Lethierry & Severin, 1896: 81.

Pnirontis (Centromelus) scorpioni Giacchi, 1988a: 6.

Pnirontis scorpionia Carpintero & De Biase, 2011: 35

Diagnosis.

(After Barber 1930, Giacchi 1985) Female head with tylus produced into a single process. Juga minute. Scapus longer than head. Genae well extended beyond apex of antenniferous tubercles. Anterior trochanters armed with a spine. Foretibiae with two series of spines, an inner series of 7-8 spines and an outer series of 4 spines. Corium and connexivum immaculate.

Material examined.

Buenos Aires: 1♀ (MLP) Buenos Aires City. Chaco: 1♀ (MLP) Resistencia. Formosa: 1♀ (MLP) (unspecified locality). Santiago del Estero: 1♀ (MLP) (unspecified locality).

Distribution in Argentina.

Buenos Aires: Baradero (33°48'30.4704"S, 59°30'19.6986"W), Buenos Aires City (34°36'13.5102"S, 58°22'53.4678"W), Isla Martín García (34°10'53.6154"S, 58°15'5.6592"W); Chaco: Resistencia (27°27'23.3742"S, 58°58'55.776"W); Córdoba: Sierras (31°26'20.4678"S, 64°50'4.0992"W); Corrientes: Estación Puerto Valle (29°2'0.225"S, 59°11'31.113"W), Ituzaingó (27°40'30.8742"S, 56°48'13.9428"W), San Cayetano (27°34'14.9988"S, 58°41'40.9986"W); Entre Ríos: Victoria (32°37'18.9048"S, 60°9'27.3312"W); Santa Fe: San Cristóbal (30°18'30.2142"S, 61°14'19.9176"W).