Xenogenus picturatum Berg 1883
Creators: name: Melo, M. C.
name: Montemayor, S. I.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Rhopalidae
Xenogenus
Xenogenus picturatum

description: Xenogenus picturatum Berg, 1883
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Xenogenus picturatum Berg 1883: 253 – 254 (Buenos Aires); Pennington 1920: 16 (Argentina: Litoral, Centro y Andina); Pennington 1922: 166 (Buenos Aires; La Rioja); Göllner-Scheiding 1980: 120 (Buenos Aires); Henry 1988: 653 (Mexico to Argentina); Coscarón 1998: 4 (Buenos Aires); Carpintero and De Biase 2011: 42 (Buenos Aires: Isla Martín García); Dellapé and Carpintero 2012: 133 (Buenos Aires: Tandil); Pall and Coscarón 2012: 1455 (Buenos Aires: La Plata, Felipe Solá, J.C. Paz; Catamarca: Miraflores, Belén; Córdoba: La Huerta, La Cabaña; Corrientes; Entre Ríos; La Pampa; La Rioja: Nonogasta; Misiones; Mendoza; Neuquén: Lago Currhué; San Luis; San Juan: Villa Aberastein [sic]; Salta: Güemes, Coronel Moles; Santiago del Estero: Quimilí; Tucumán: Trancas, La Cocha); Diez and Coscarón 2015: 574 (Chubut: Esquel; Neuquén: near San Martin de los Andes).
Xenogenus picturatus [sic]: Lethierry and Severin 1894: 115 (Buenos Aires).
Xenogenus extensum Distant (syn. by Göllner-Scheiding 1980): Brailovsky and Soria 1981: 153 – 154 (Argentina); Pall and Coscarón 2012: 1455 (Argentina).
Material examined
URUGUAY: Lectotype ♂, Banda Oriental (MLP); ARGENTINA: paralectotype ♂, Buenos Aires, Jose Prini, 1883 (MLP); Buenos Aires: 1♂, J.C. Paz, XII-1938, (MLP); 1♂ 2♀, José C. Paz, 1940, J.A. Rosas Costa col. (MLP); 1♂ 1♀, José C. Paz, XI-XII-1948, A.R. Bezzi col. (MLP); Chaco: 1♂, Lag. La Azula, 26°44 ʹ 5,5 ʹʹ S, 59°26 ʹ 14,7 ʹʹ W, 26-IX-2009, P. Dellapé col. (MLP); 1♂ 1♀, Pte. Perón (Chaco), Resistencia, 29-III-1953, J. Foerster col., J.C. Lutz coll. (USNM); Catamarca: 1♂, Belén, 9-III-62, Torres- Ferreyra col. (MLP); Jujuy: 3♂ 1♀, Pampa Blanca, 13-III-1939, Birabén- Scott cols. (MLP); La Rioja: 1♀, VI-1929, Gomez col., H.M. Harris coll. (USNM); Misiones: 3♂ 1♀, Parque Provincial Moconá, 27°9.185 ’ S, 53°54.08 ’ W, 31-III-2012, S. Montemayor col. (MLP); Neuquén: 4♂ 2♀, RN 40, 20 NW Esquel, −42.802607600 – 71.121041000, 866 m, 24-I-2014, Dellapé, P.M. col. (MLP); San Juan: 1♂, Dto. Pocito, Villa Aberastain, 22-I-64, Dr. Torres- Ferreyra col. (MLP); 1♀, same data, 23-I-64; Salta: 1♂ 3♀, Güemes, 2 – 9-45, A. Martínez col.(MLP); 1♂, Cafayate, Quebrada R. Colorado, IV-97, P.P. Goodwyn col. (MLP); Santiago del Estero: 1♀, XI-1928, Gómez col., H.M. Harris coll. (USNM); 1♂, Quimili, 9-XII-1939, Birabén-Bezzi col. (MLP). BRAZIL: 1♂ 1♀, Parana, Foz do Iguaçu, 19-VII-1961, Krauss col. (USNM).
Argentinean distribution
Buenos Aires, Catamarca, Chaco *, Jujuy *, La Rioja, Misiones, Neuquén, Salta, San Juan and Santiago del Estero.
Central and South American distribution
Argentina and Uruguay (Berg 1883); North America, Middle America and South America (Göllner-Scheiding 1983); Argentina, Bolivia, Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico and USA (Brailovsky and Soria 1981); Brazil * NEW COUNTRY RECORD.
Comments
Pall and Coscarón (2012) mentioned this species from Corrientes, Entre Ríos, La Pampa, Mendoza and San Luis provinces; but there is no bibliographical record or list of material from these areas. In ‘ material studied ’ they reported two localities from each of Tucumán and Córdoba provinces, but we did not find specimens in the collection they studied (MLP) or in any of the other collections examined, so these records could be based on misidentification. It is difficult to track the material they studied because they provide no information other than mentioning localities. Regarding the records from Neuquén, we did not find specimens from the locality they mention, but we did find six specimens from a more southern locality. They also mentioned Jujuy as a first record although they did not give a record of any material from that province.
Remarks
Pall and Coscarón (2012) include Xenogenus extensum Distant in their catalogue, overlooking that it was synonymised by Göllner-Scheiding (1980) under Xenogenus picturatum Berg.
description: Published as part of Melo, M. C. & Montemayor, S. I., 2015, Biodiversity of the scentless plant bugs (Hemiptera: Rhopalidae) in southern South America, pp. 163-200 in Journal of Natural History 50 on pages 172-174, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1073810, http://zenodo.org/record/3983256