Pycnoderes quadrimaculatus Guerin-Meneville 1857
Creators: name: Ferreira, Paulo Sérgio Fiuza
name: Martins, David Dos Santos
name: Ferreira, Luciano Santana Fiuza
name: Fornazier, Maurício José
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Pycnoderes
Pycnoderes quadrimaculatus

description: Pycnoderes quadrimaculatus Guérin-Menèville (Fig. 6-P)
Pycnoderes quadrimaculatus Guérin-Menèville, 1857:404; Schuh 2003–2013 (online catalog, hosts, distribution); Knight 1968:77 (biology); Capriles 1969:20 (description); Carvalho & Ferreira 1972:162 (list); Alayo 1974:21 (diagnosis); Carvalho 1980B:647 (diagnosis, type specimen); Hernández & Henry 2010:41 (synonymy, diagnosis, color habitus, male genitalia, host, information); Alvarez-Zapata 2022:134 (diagnosis, key to species of Colombia, host, distribution).
Diagnosis. Overall coloration is black, with areas of pale white and yellowish brown. Body oval or oblong, with silvery spots on the hemelytra. The head with vertex; front with a median line; and the clypeus with black apex. Pronotum disc greatly inflated with weakly grooved on median area. Hemelytra with an enlarged embolium and a pale subbasal spot about twice the length of the smaller apical spot. Male genitalia as figure. 11-K.
Plant Associations. Alvarez-Zapata et al. (2022): Amaranthus sp. (Amaranthaceae) (Ferreira et al. 2001 A), Zantedeschia aethiopica (L.) Spreng. (Araceae) (Nogueira et al. 2019A), Lactuca sativa L. (Asteraceae), Brassica rapa L. (Brassicaceae) (USDA 1941), Ipomoea sp. (Convolvulaceae) (Hernández & Henry 2010), Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai (Cucurbitaceae) (Wehrle 1935), Cucumis dipsaceus Ehrenb. Ex Spach (Cucurbitaceae) (Zimmerman 1948), Cucumis melo L. (Cucurbitaceae) (Wehrle 1935), Cucurbita maxima Duchesne (Cucurbitaceae) (Ferreira et al. 2001), Cucurbita pepo L. (Cucurbitacae), Cucurbita “ sativus ” (Cucurbitaceae) (Hernández & Henry 2010), Phaseolus vulgaris L. (Fabaceae) (Ferreira et al. 2001), Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp. (Fabaceae) (Nogueira et al. 2019A), Carya illinoinensis (Wangenh.) K. Koch (Juglandaceae) (Life 2019), Saccharum spp. (Poaceae) (Salazar et al. 2017) and Portulaca sp. (Portulacaceae) (Zimmerman 1948).
Distribution. Alvarez-Zapata at al. (2022): Argentina (Carpintero & Carvalho 1993), Brazil: Espírito Santo (Jerônimo Monteiro (Vélez et al. 2020), Domingos Martins, Aracruz, Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, Piaui) Colombia (Nariño, Putumayo) (Carvalho & Afonso 1977; Alvarez-Zapata at al. 2022), Costa Rica (Hemp & Konrad 2000), Cuba (Guérin-Menèville 1857), Dominican Republic (Carvalho 1951A), Guatemala (Carvalho & Afonso 1977), Honduras (Carvalho 1951A), Mexico (Alvarez-Zapata at al. 2022), Nicaragua, Panama (Carvalho & Afonso 1977), Peru (Carvalho 1991; Carvalho & Ferreira 1972), Puerto Rico, Surinam (Carvalho & Rosas 1965), U.S.A. (Uhler 1894; Zimmerman 1948), Venezuela (Cazorla-Perfetti & Morales-Moreno 2019), West Indies (Van Duzze 1917; Uhler 1894).
description: Published as part of Ferreira, Paulo Sérgio Fiuza, Martins, David Dos Santos, Ferreira, Luciano Santana Fiuza & Fornazier, Maurício José, 2024, Synopsis of Miridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in Atlantic Forest Dominion, Espírito Santo State, Brazil: keys, diagnoses, new species, plant associations, and geographic distribution. Part I: Bryocorinae, Cylapinae and Deraeocorinae., pp. 201-254 in Zootaxa 5468 (2) on pages 224-225, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5468.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/11615431