Classification > Superfamily
Reduvioidea
> Family
Reduviidae
> Subfamily
Hammacerinae
> Genus
Microtomus
Microtomus reuteri (Berg 1879)
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Geographic distribution
Distribution
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- Argentina
- Buenos Aires
- Córdoba
- Corrientes
- Misiones
- Salta
- Santa Fe
- Santiago del Estero
- Uruguay
Other distribution
Also known from Bolivia and Brazil (Melo & Coscaron 2004).
- Microtomus fasciatus f. nigra Stichel 1926
Several adults were found in caves of Cavia sp. and marsupialia, in trunks near houses and in corrals of goats attacking nymphs and adults of Triatoma infestans in Córdoba; several adults and nymphs V were found in caves of Ctenomys sp. attacking adults of Triatoma rubrovaria in Entre Ríos (Carpintero 1981).
Syntype deposited at the Museo de La Plata (MLP) (Coscaron et al. 2015).
Syntype deposited at the Museo de La Plata (MLP) (Coscaron et al. 2015).
- BERG, C. 1884. Addenda et emendanda ad Hemiptera Argentina (conclusio). Additamenda. Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina, 17: 97-118.
- TORRE BUENO, J. R., & THOMAS, D. B. 1915. Nota sobre hemípteros del chaco de Santiago del Estero. Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires 26: 157-162.
- PENNINGTON, M.S. 1920-1921. Lista de los Hemípteros Heterópteros de la República Argentina. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- CARPINTERO, D.J. 1981. Sobre Reduviidae predatores de Triatominae. Comunicaciones del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" e Instituto Nacional de Investigacion de las Ciencias Naturales, Entomologia 1(6): 83-92.
- MELO, M.C. & M.C. COSCARON. 2005. Redescription of Microtomus reuteri Berg (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Hammacerinae). Entomological News 115(5): 249- 254.
