Pycnoderes, Guerin-Meneville

Ferreira, Paulo Sérgio Fiuza, Martins, David Dos Santos, Ferreira, Luciano Santana Fiuza & Fornazier, Maurício José, 2024, Synopsis of Miridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in Atlantic Forest Dominion, Espírito Santo State, Brazil: keys, diagnoses, new species, plant associations, and geographic distribution. Part I: Bryocorinae, Cylapinae and Deraeocorinae., Zootaxa 5468 (2), pp. 201-254 : 224

Key to the Pycnoderes species of Espírito Santo

1 Head with vertex, median line of front, and apex of clypeus black, remainder..pale yellowish brown; pronotum with median area weakly grooved; embolium with a large pale subbasal spot about twice the length of the smaller apical spot.............................................................................................. P. quadrimaculatus

- Head black; pronotum without median area weakly grooved; embolium with a. pale subbasal spot not twice the length of the apical spot............................................................................. P. cataguasensis