Classification > Superfamily
Miroidea
> Family
Tingidae
> Subfamily
Tinginae
> Tribe
Tingini
> Genus
Colepterodes
Colepterodes liliputiana (Signoret 1863)
Colepterodes liliputiana (Signoret, 1863), Female Paratype [USNM], dorsal view
Geographic distribution
Distribution
No economic damages registered
- Argentina
- Buenos Aires
- Neuquén
Other distribution
Chile
- Solenostoma liliputiana Signoret, 1863
- Coleopterodes fuscescens Philippi, 1864
- Monanthia liliputiana Walker, 1873
- Solenostoma lipiputianum Champion, 1898
- Coleopterodes liliputianum Drake, 1922
- Solenostoma liliputiana Drake & Ruhoff, 1960
The known records for Argentina belong to a Berg (1884) and Montemayor & Coscarón (2005), Pennington (1920-1921) also provides distributional information of de Coleopterodes liliputiana but does not specify provinces or localities. Scanning electron micrographs of the species are presented in Montemayor & Coscarón (2005) and the main differences beween the two species that constitute the genus are discuss. Also, a neotype for the species is designated. Coleopterodes liliputiana has a very peculiar morphology among the tingids because it is adapted to an underground existence as they feed from the roots of their host plant.
Acacia covenia, Baccharis pingraea
- BERG, C. 1884. Addenda et emendanda ad Hemiptera Argentina. Bonariae: Pauli E. Coni pp. 1-213.
- PENNINGTON, M.S. 1920-1921. Lista de los Hemípteros Heterópteros de la República Argentina. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- MONTEMAYOR, S. I. & M.C. COSCARÓN. 2005. Taxonomic revision of Coleopterodes Philippi (Heteroptera: Tingidae). Zootaxa 1092: 31-38.
