Jadera coturnix ( Burmeister, 1835 )

Melo, M. C. & Montemayor, S. I., 2015, Biodiversity of the scentless plant bugs (Hemiptera: Rhopalidae) in southern South America, Journal of Natural History 50, pp. 163-200 : 192

Jadera coturnix ( Burmeister, 1835)

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Leptocoris coturnix Burmeister 1835 , 2: 305 ( Brazil).

Jadera aeola aeola (Dallas) syn. by Göllner-Scheiding 1979: 51 ( Argentina); Melo et al. 2011: 17 (Chaco: P.N. Chaco); Carpintero and De Biase 2011: 42 (Buenos Aires: Isla Martin García); Pall and Coscarón 2012: 1444 (La Rioja, Tucumán).

Jadera coturnix Henry 1988: 663 ( Mexico to South America).

Material examined

ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires: 1♂, La Plata, C . Bruch col ., H.M. Harris coll. ( USNM); Chaco: 1♂ 1♀, P .N. Chaco , park rangers ’ house, 26°48 ʹ 25 ” S, 59°36 ʹ 36.5 ” W, 26-IX-2009, light trap, P .M. Dellapé and M .C. Melo cols. ( MLP) ; 1♂, same data, 25-IX-2009, light trap, M .C . Melo col . ( MLP); 1♂, same data, 17/ 28-X-2009, light trap, R . Pfoh col . ( MLP); Misiones: 1♀, Parque Provincial Urugua-í , 25°51 ʹ 46.4 ” S, 54°10 ʹ 13.9 ” W, 276 m, 30-IX-2010, Montemayor, S .I . col. ( MLP).

Argentinean distribution

Buenos Aires, Chaco and Misiones *.

Central and South American distribution

Argentina, Jamaica, Mexico and Panama ( Göllner-Scheiding 1979); from USA (Texas) to Argentina ( Göllner-Scheiding 1983).

Comments

Pall and Coscarón (2012) recorded this species from La Rioja and Tucumán, but neither province is mentioned in the literature and we did not find any specimens in the MLP collection or any of the collections studied. They also overlooked Panama, Jamaica and the USA.