Pycnoderes incurvus
Creators: name: Alvarez-Zapata, Alejandra
name: Ferreira, Paulo S. F.
name: Serna, Francisco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Pycnoderes
Pycnoderes incurvus

description: Pycnoderes incurvus (Distant, 1884)
(Fig. 35, 73–74)
Eccritotarsus incurvus Distant, 1884: 285 (original description).
Pycnoderes incurvus (Reuter, 1905: 5 (new combination).
Material examined. COLOMBIA. Cundinamarca: 1 ♀, Fusagasugá, weeds, 3.i.1963 (I. de Arévalo) (CTNI 104); 1 ♂, Guaduas, San José, 1016 m, 5°41’N, 74°36’W, 28.iii.2014 (S. Quevedo) (UNAB 1895); 1 ♀, Tena, Vda. Santa Bárbara, Fca. La Virgen, 1384 m, 4°39’N, 74°23’W, 23.iii.2014 (L. Daza) (UNAB 1895); Huila: 1 ♀, Pitalito, Vda. Aguadas, Tecnoparque Agroecológico Yamboró, 1285 m, 1°53’N, 76°5’W, manual collecting, 21.ix.2014 (M. Novoa-Torres) (UNAB 1895); Valle del Cauca: 10 ♂ 4 ♀ 1?, Restrepo, 8.vi.1983, Cucurbita sp. (Cucurbitaceae) - ”zapallo” (B. de Gutierrez) (CTNI 104).— COSTA RICA. 1 ♂ 2 ♀ (O. Mouteey) (MNRJ).
Diagnosis. Head in dorsal view and pronotum black. Antennal segments I and II white. Embolium black with sub-basal and apical white spot. Fore and middle femora white. Hind femur white with black apex. Posterior pronotal lobe with longitudinal median sulcus, appearing to divide the lobe into two humps. Body length 3.00– 4.10 mm. Right paramere (Fig. 73) with basal process short and slightly curved; body elongate and thick, with elongate protuberance before sensory lobe; sensory lobe small, inconspicuous, located at the base of apical process; apical process flattened, with tapered apex. Left paramere (Fig. 74) with basal process short, slightly concave; body flattened, wide, sub-triangular, slightly concave; sensory lobe absent; apical process curved at base towards the body, apex bent and blunt.
Associated plants. Calendula officinalis L. (Asteraceae) (Nogueira et al. 2019); Mikania michranta Kunth (Asteraceae) (Cock 1981), Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum & Nakai (Cucurbitaceae) (Rogg 2001), Cucurbita maxima Duchesne (Cucurbitaceae) (Gallego & Vélez 1992), Cucurbita moschata Duchesne (Cucurbitaceae) (Coto et al. 1995), Cucurbita pepo L. (Cucurbitaceae) (Ferreira et al. 2001; Ferreira & Rossi 1979), Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standl. (Cucurbitaceae) (Nogueira et al. 2019), Sechium edule Sw. (Cucurbitaceae) (Coto et al. 1995), Cucurbitaceae (García et al. 1984), Phaseolus vulgaris L. (Fabaceae) (Coto et al. 1995) and Passiflora edulis Sims (Passifloraceae) (Carmona 2016).
Distribution. Brazil (Ferreira et al. 2006), Costa Rica (Gamboa 2005), Dominican Republic (Perez-Gelabert 2008), Ecuador (Carvalho & Afonso 1977), Guatemala (Distant 1884),
Grenada, U.S.A. (Uhler 1894b), Haiti (Perez-Gelabert 2008), Honduras (Carmona 2016),
Mexico (Reuter 1908a), Trinidad (Cock 1981), Venezuela (Reuter 1892).— Colombia (Caldas) (Carvalho & Afonso 1977); new department records: Cundinamarca, Huila, Valle del Cauca.
Comments. Specimens of P. incurvus in literature ranged from 3.00– 3.95 mm long (Distant 1884; Ferreira & Henry 2011). Specimens in the present work are 3.20–4.10 mm; hence, length ranges are 3.00– 4.10 mm.
description: Published as part of Alvarez-Zapata, Alejandra, Ferreira, Paulo S. F. & Serna, Francisco, 2022, A taxonomic synopsis of the Eccritotarsini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae Bryocorinae) of Colombia, pp. 101-151 in Zootaxa 5178 (2) on pages 137-138, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5178.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7022163