Pycnoderes atratus
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 atratus

description: Pycnoderes atratus (Distant, 1884)
(Figs. 34, 71–72)
Eccritotarsus atratus Distant, 1884: 285 (original description).
Physetonotus atratus Reuter, 1892: 395 (new combination).
Pycnoderes atratus Reuter, 1908a: 160 (new combination).
Material examined. COLOMBIA 1 ♂ 1 ♀, Qda. El Naranjal, 5.vi.1970 (A. Santoyo) (ICN 092940, ICN 092941); Antioquia: 1 ♂, Carepa, Hda. Tulenapa, 27 m, 7°46’N, 76°39’W, 31.iii.2014 (S. Vergara) (UNAB 610); 3 ♂ 1 ♀, Medellín, Moravia, 1530 m, 6°16’38.54”N, 75°34’04.41”W, net sweeping, 1.v.2008 (A. Bedoya) (MEFLG NC26679, MEFLG NC26680, MEFLG NC26682, MEFLG NC26684); 2 ♂ 1 ♀, Turbo, weeds, 1.v.1971 (E. Urueta) (MEFLG NC26685 – MEFLG NC26687); Chocó: 1 ♂, PNN Los Katíos, Centro Administrativo Sautatá, 30 m, 7º51’N, 77º8’W, Malaise trap, forest edge, 13–­ 28.i.2004 (P. López) (IAVH-E-164622); 1 ♂, same but outside the forest, 13–­ 29.vi.2003 (P. López) (IAVH-E-164644); 1 ♀, same but outside the forest, 27.vii–­ 12.viii.2004 (O. Cardona) (IAVH-E-164697); 1 ♂, same but outside the forest, 29.v–­ 13.vi.2003 (P. López) (IAVH-E-164715); Cundinamarca: 1 ♀, La Vega via Villeta, 1230 m, 4°59’N, 74°20’W, 9.vi.2002 (D. Castañeda) (UNAB 610); 1 ♂, Mesitas del Colegio, Fca. Las Brisas, 1100 m, 4°34’N, 74°26’W, 9.iii.2002 (A. Bejarano) (UNAB 610).
Diagnosis. Embolium in dorsal view dark brown to black with a white apical spot. When hemelytra at rest, overlapping membranes forming a cross-shaped spot. Body length 2.30–2.80 mm. Right paramere (Fig. 71) with basal process short, curved; body elongate and thick with protuberance before apical process; sensory lobe somewhat triangular; apical process flattened, slightly concave, with apex rounded. Left paramere (Fig. 72) with basal process short, straight; body heart-shaped, wide, flattened, thicker towards the basal process; sensory lobe absent; apical process curved at base, directed towards the body with apex bent and blunt.
Associated plants. Commelina diffusa Burm.f. (Commelinaceae) (Crowe 1953), Arachis hypogaea L. (Fabaceae) (Coto et al. 1995), Phaseolus sp. (Fabaceae) (Maes & Tellez 1991) and Theobroma cacao (Malvaceae) (Carmona 2016).
Distribution. Brazil (Carvalho 1951a), Costa Rica (Carvalho 1951c), Dominican Republic (Carvalho 1951a), El Salvador (Carvalho & Afonso 1977), French Guiana (Chérot & Carpintero 2016), Grenada (Uhler 1894b), Guatemala (Carvalho & Afonso 1977), Honduras (Carvalho 1951a),
Mexico (Uhler 1894b), Nicaragua (Maes & Tellez 1991), Panama (Carvalho & Afonso 1977), Peru (Carvalho 1991), Trinidad (Crowe 1953), U.S.A., Venezuela, West Indies (Uhler 1894b).— Colombia (without details) (Uhler 1894b); new department records: Antioquia, Cundinamarca, Chocó.
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 page 135, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5178.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7022163