Murgantia bifasciata (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1836)

Castro-Huertas, Valentina, Grazia, Jocelia, Forero, Dimitri, Fernández, Fernando & Schwertner, Cristiano F., 2022, Stink bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) of Colombia: An annotated checklist of species, Zootaxa 5097 (1), pp. 1-88 : 71

Murgantia bifasciata (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1836) [ Fig. 107 ]

Distribution. Costa Rica, Colombia, Brazil, and Argentina.

Distribution in Colombia. Risaralda and Valle del Cauca.

Remarks. Murgantia bifasciata has the anterior margin of scutellar disk with a transversal band yellow, and the lateral margins of the pygophore are excavated.

References. Kirkaldy 1909; Jensen-Haarup, 1926; Rolston & McDonald 1984; Brailovsky & Barrera 1989; Castro-Huertas et al. 2015.

Figures

FIGURES 96‒108. Pentatominae genera in Colombia. 96. Elsiella plana (MPUJ). 97. Neotibilis parva (MPUJ). 98. Pellaea stictica (MPUJ). 99. Phalaecus sp. (IAVH). 100. Pharypia pulchella (MPUJ). 101. Placocoris sp. (MPUJ). 102. Serdia delphis (MPUJ). 103. Taurocerus achilles (MPUJ). 104. Piezodorus guildinii (MPUJ). 105. Odmalea concolor (MPUJ). 106. Pseudobebaeus truncatus (UFRG). 107. Murgantia bifasciata (ICN). 108. Patanius vittatus (MZUSP). Scale bar: 5 mm.