Chariesterus armatus ( Thunberg, 1825 )

María C. Melo, Gimena Dellapé, Leonela Olivera, Pablo S. Varela, Sara I. Montemayor & Pablo M. Dellapé, 2017, Diversity of true bugs from Iguazú National Park, Argentina, Check List 13 (5), pp. 479-511 : 491

Chariesterus armatus ( Thunberg, 1825)

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Distribution. Argentina: Chaco, Tucumán, and Salta ( Pennington 1922); Brazil, [ New Granada], Paraguay, and Trinidad ( Packauskas 2010).

Material examined. 1♂, 08-XII-2008, Zamudio, Colleselli & Gómez de Olivera colls., PNI0311 ( MLP).

Remarks. First record for Misiones province.

This species can be distinguished from the other species of the genus by the humeral spines shorter and not arcuate but directed laterally and slightly upward rather than forward, the tomentum of the pronotum interspersed with erect setae, and the abdominal dorsum rosaceous to sanguineous in the middle and black at base and apex (Ruckes 1955).

Figures

Figure 25–33. Coreidae. 25. Leptoglossus lonchoides Allen, 1969, new country record. 26. Chariesterus armatus (Thunberg, 1825). 27. Scamurius marianae Brailovsky, 1986. 28. Madura fuscoclavata fuscoclavata Stål, 1860. 29. Catorhintha divergens Barber, 1926. 30. Catorhintha duplicata Brailovsky & García,1987, new country record. 31. Quintius dentifer Stål,1870, new country record. 32. Plaxiscelis pagana (Burmeister, 1835). 33. Spartocera dentiventris Berg, 1883.