Species info
Classification > Superfamily Miroidea > Family Tingidae > Subfamily Tinginae > Tribe Tingini > Genus Amblystira
Amblystira silvicola Drake 1922
Amblystira silvicola Drake 1922, Female, dorsal view
<i>Amblystira silvicola </i> Drake 1922, Female, dorsal view
Amblystira silvicola Drake 1922, Female, dorsal view
<i>Amblystira silvicola </i> Drake 1922, Female, lateral view
Amblystira silvicola Drake 1922, Female, lateral view
<i>Amblystira silvicola </i> Drake 1922, Male, dorsal view
Amblystira silvicola Drake 1922, Male, dorsal view
<i>Amblystira silvicola </i> Drake 1922, Male, lateral view
Amblystira silvicola Drake 1922, Male, lateral view
 
Geographic distribution
Distribution
No economic damages registered
  • Argentina
    • Misiones
Other distribution
Bolivia, Brazil, British Guiana, and Paraguay.

 
Observations
The species is illustrated in Drake (1922) and was reported from Argentina by Drake in (1936). There is a key to determine the South American species of Amblystira (Montemayor, 2010).
Host plants
Serjania sp.; Bignoniaceae
References
  • DRAKE, C. J. . 1922. Neotropical Tingitidae with descriptions of three new genera and thirty-two new species and varieties (Hemiptera). Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum 9(2): 351-379.
  • DRAKE, C. J. 1936. Some Tingitoidea (Hemiptera) from Argentina (Hemiptera). Travaux de l´Institut Zoologique de l´Académie des Sciences de l´URSS 3: 699-701.
  • MONTEMAYOR, S. I. . 2010. Description of a new Amblystira (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae) from Argentina with a key to the South American species of the genus. Zootaxa, 2675: 65-68.
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