Stenoeurilla aenescens Stal
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Description
Stenoeurilla aenescens (Stål)
(Figs. 1, 6, 10, 15, 22, 26)
Stenoscelidea aenescens Stål, 1870: 154.
Stenoscelidea prolixa Brailovsky, 1983: 322 –324, syn. nov.
General distribution. Originally described from Mexico and later cited from Costa Rica and Guatemala. COSTA RICA: Prov. Guanacaste, Hacienda Palo Verde and La Pacifica, 4 km NE from Cañas (Stål 1870, Distant 1881 – 1892, Solomon & Schaefer 1981, Brailovsky 1983).
Material examined. New records. COSTA RICA: 4 males, 1 female, Prov. Guanacaste, 14 km S Cañas, 26– 30-IX-1989, 1–15-IX-1990, 1–5-X-1990, 1–10-VII-1991, F. D. Parker (AUEM, UNAM)
Stenoeurilla aenescens was originally described from Veracruz (Mexico) based on at least one female specimen; later Distant (1881 –1890) recorded this species to Guatemala (Capetillo, San Geronimo, Las Mercedes, San Isidro and El Reposo) and added new localities from Mexico (Guerrero: Acahuizotla and Rincon; and Tabasco: Teapa). Solomon and Froeschner (1981) cited this species from Costa Rica (Guanacaste Province: Hacienda Palo Verde); and Packauskas (2010) summarizes the historical status of the species. Later Brailovsky and Barrera 2012, revised the generic complex Stenoscelidea Westwood 1842 and described a new genus Stenoeurilla, transferring to it the following species: S. aenescens (Stål, 1870), S. glabra (Brailovsky, 1983), S. hansoni (Brailovsky & Barrera, 1997), S. maya (Brailovsky & Barrera, 1983), S. mimica (Brailovsky & Barrera, 1983), S. pellucida (Brailovsky & Barrera, 1997), S. peruviana (Brailovsky & Barrera, 1997), and S. prolixa (Brailovsky, 1983).
Stenoeurilla prolixa (Brailovsky 1983) was originally described from Costa Rica based on one female specimen that had diagnostic differences from S. aenescens (Stål 1870). Recently a large number of specimens from Mexico and Central America were examined along with a photograph of a syntype specimen of S. aenescens deposited in NHRS. After close examination of the color variation, structure, and allometry, we now consider the differences between the two to be insufficiently constant to merit recognition as a valid species and that they are conspecific, thus S. prolixa is regarded as a junior synonym.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AUEM, UNAM
- Family
- Coreidae
- Genus
- Stenoeurilla
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Stal
- Species
- aenescens
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Stenoeurilla aenescens (Stal, 1870) sec. Brailovsky & Barrera, 2019
References
- Stal, C. (1870) Enumeratio Hemipterorum. Kongliga Svenska Fetenskaps-Akademiens Forhandlingar, Part 1 (9), 1 - 232.
- Brailovsky, H. (1983) Cuatro nuevas especies del genero Stenoscelidea Westwood (Hemiptera-Heteroptera-Coreidae- Acanthocephalini). Anales del Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Serie Zoologia, 53 (1), 321 - 339.
- Distant, W. L. (1881 - 1892) Insecta. Rhynchota. Hemiptera-Heteroptera. Fol. 1. III. Biologia Centrali-Americana. Published for the editors by R. H. Porter London, 462 pp.
- Solomon, J. C. & Froeschner, R. C. (1981) Notes on food resources and behavior of the family Coreidae (Hemiptera) in a semideciduous forest. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 83, 428 - 431.
- Packauskas, R. (2010) Catalog of the Coreidae, or Leaf-Footed Bugs of the New World. Fort Hays Studies, Series 4, 5, 1 - 270.
- Brailovsky, H. & Barrera, E. (2012) Review of the Stenoscelidea complex and key to the known genera of Stenoscelideini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 52 (2), 355 - 370.
- Westwood, J. O. (1842) A Catalogue of Hemiptera in the collection of the Rev. F. W. Hope, with short Latin descriptions of new species. Part II. J. C. Bridgewater, London, 46 pp.
- Brailovsky, H. & Barrera, E. (1997) Especies nuevas del genero Stenoscelidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae: Acanthocephalini). Anales del Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Serie Zoologia, 68 (2), 261 - 273.