Ochterus aeneifrons subsp. aeneifrons aeneifrons (Champion 1901
Creators: name: Kment, Petr
name: Carapezza, Attilio
name: Jindra, Zdeněk
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Ochteridae
Ochterus
Ochterus aeneifrons
Ochterus aeneifrons aeneifrons (champion, 1901)

description: Ochterus aeneifrons aeneifrons (Champion, 1901)   
 Pelogonus marginatus (misidentification, partim): UHLER (1893): 706 (list, ‘two forms’); UHLER (1894): 222 (variability).   
 Pelogonus aeneifrons Champion, 1901: 344– 345 – 346, Pl. XX: figs 12, 13, 13a (key, original description, variability, llustrations). SYNTYPES: 24 spec. (♀♀), Mexico: Tabasco: ‘Teapa’; Guatemala: ‘San Gerónimo, Guatemala city’; Panama: ‘Tolé, Peña Blanca, San Feliz’; Grenada; St. Vincent (BMNH).   
 Ochterus aeneifrons: KIRKALDY & TORRE BUENO (1909): 179 (catalogue).   
 Ochterus aenifrons (incorrect subsequent spelling): BARBER (1913): 213 (key to species).   
 Ochterus aenifrons (incorrect subsequent spelling): SCHELL (1943a): 32, 35 (key to species, illustration); SCHELL (1943b): 43 –44 (original description repeated, differential diagnosis); DRAKE (1952): 74 (checklist).   
 Ochterus aeneifrons: FROESCHNER (1981): 61 (catalogue); FROESCHNER (1999): 148 (catalogue); HECKMAN (2011): 462 (key to species); CIANFERONI (2012): 67 (key to species for Ecuador).   
 Ochterus aeneifrons aeneifrons: NIESER & ALKINS KOO (1991): 14 (key); POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS (2012): 17, 20–24 (key to species, redescription, illustrations).   
 Ochterus barberi (misidentification): SCHELL (1943b): 42 (paratypes from Orizaba, Mexico) (see POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016).   
  Distribution. Neotropical Region:  Central America: Belize (POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016); Costa Rica (SCHELL 1943b, POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016); El Salvador (POLHE- MUS & POLHEMUS 2016); Guatemala (CHAMPION 1901, KIRKALDY & TORRE BUENO 1909, SCHELL 1943b, POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016); Honduras (SCHELL 1943b); Mexico (KIRKALDY & TORRE BUENO 1909, SCHELL 1943b, DRAKE 1952): Chiapas (POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016), Colima (POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016), Guerrero (POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016), Jalisco (POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016), Mexico (POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016), Nayarit (POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016), Nuevo León (POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016), Oaxaca (POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016), Puebla (POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016), Queretaro (POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016), San Luis Potosí (POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016), Tabasco (CHAMPION 1901), Tamaulipas (POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016), Veracruz (POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016); Nicaragua (POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016); Panama (CHAMPION 1901, KIRKALDY & TORRE BUENO 1909, SCHELL 1943b, FROESCHNER 1999, POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016). Caribbean Islands: Grenada (UHLER 1894, as P. marginatus; CHAMPION 1901; KIRKALDY & TORRE BUENO 1909); St. Vincent (UHLER 1893, as P. marginatus; CHAMPION 1901; KIRKALDY & TORRE BUENO 1909); Trinidad and Tobago (KIRKALDY & TORRE BUENO 1909, SCHELL 1943b, NIESER & ALKINS KOO 1991, POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016). South America: Colombia (SCHELL 1943b, DRAKE 1952, POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016); Ecuador (SCHELL 1943b; FROESCHNER 1981; NIESER & CHEN 1992, as O. aeneifrons).   
 Note. The subspecies identity of the specimens recorded from Ecuador only as O. aeneifrons by NIESER & CHEN (1992) requires confirmation.
description: Published as part of Kment, Petr, Carapezza, Attilio & Jindra, Zdeněk, 2020, Taxonomic catalogue of the family Ochteridae with description of Ochterus papaceki sp. nov. from Socotra Island and Tanzania (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), pp. 23-64 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on pages 31-32, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.003, http://zenodo.org/record/3879659