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Reduvioidea
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Reduviidae
> Subfamily
Ectrichodinae
> Genus
Pothea
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Pothea (Pothea)
Pothea (Pothea) wygodzinsky Carpintero 1978
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Geographic distribution
Distribution
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- Argentina
- Catamarca
- Córdoba
- Jujuy
- Salta
- Tucumán
Other distribution
Known only from Argentina.
The species was found in a cave of Cavia sp. on the banks of the Anisacate River, La Serranita, Valde de Calamuchita, Cordoba province; this specimen was full of blood (Carpintero 1978).
Holotype and one paratype deposited at MACN (Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Bachmann 1999), and six paratypes deposited at IFML (Instituto y Fundación Miguel Lillo, Tucuman, Argentina) (Melo et al. 2018).
Holotype and one paratype deposited at MACN (Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Bachmann 1999), and six paratypes deposited at IFML (Instituto y Fundación Miguel Lillo, Tucuman, Argentina) (Melo et al. 2018).
- CARPINTERO, D.J. 1978. Revisión del genero Pothea Amyot y Serville, 1843. Sus especies en la Argentina (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Ectrichodiinae). Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia 5:177-286.
- BACHMANN, A.O. 1999. Catálogo de los tipos de Heteroptera (Insecta) conservados en el Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, n.s. 1(2): 191-230.
- MELO M.C., M.P. ZAMUDIO & P.M. DELLAPE. 2018. A catalogue of the type specimens of Heteroptera (Insecta) housed at the Instituto Fundación Miguel Lillo (Tucumán, Argentina). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 77(2): 1-21.
