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Tingidae
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Tinginae
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Tingini
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Teleonemia
Teleonemia prolixa (Stål 1858)
Teleonemia prolixa (Stal), dorsal view.
Geographic distribution
Distribution
Pest regularly of importance
- Argentina
- Buenos Aires
- Misiones
Other distribution
Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guayanas Inglesas, Guiana, Isla de Mona, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Perú, Surinam, Trinidad y, Venezuela.
- Laccometopus prolixus Stål, 1858.
- Monanthia (Tropidochila) sacchari (not Fabricius): Stål, 1862.
- Tingis (Amaurosterphus) prolixa (not Fabricius): Stål, 1868.
- Monanthia prolixa (not Fabricius): Walker, 1873.
In Champion (1898) there is an illustration of type of the species and in Champion (1897-1901)) there is a key to identify it from some other species of Teleonemia and an illustration of the species. Silva (1956) also provides an illustration. This species has been considered a potential biocontrol agent of Lantana camara (Guidotti et al. 2015), it has even been released in Australia but the populations were not stablished successfully (Day & Neser 2000; Zalucki et al. 2007).
Acacia riparida; Cinchona sp.; Lantana camara; Solanaceae.
- CHAMPION, G. C. 1897-1901. Insecta. Rynchota. Hemiptera-Heteroptera. Vol.2 In: Godman, F. D. & Salvin, O. (Eds), Biologia Centrali-Americana Taylor & Francis, London 416 pp. + 22 plates.
- CHAMPION, G.C. 1898. Notes on American and other Tingitidae, with descriptions of two new genera and four species. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1: 55-64.
- SILVA, P. 1956. Tingideos Da Bahia. Boletim do Instituto Biológico da Bahia 3(1): 10-77.
- DAY, M.D. & NESER, S. 2000. Factors influencing the biological control of Lantana camara in Australia and South Africa. In Proceedings of the X Symposium on Biological Control of Weeds (pp. 897-908).
- ZALUCKI, M.P., DAY, M.D. & PLAYFORD, J. 2007. Will biological control of Lantana camara ever succeed? Patterns, processes & prospects. Biological Control 42(3), 251-261.
- GUIDOTI, M., S.I. MONTEMAYOR & É. GUILBERT. 2015. Lace Bugs (Tingidae). In True Bugs (Heteroptera) of the Neotropics (pp. 395-419). Springer Netherlands.
