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Graptocleptes
Graptocleptes bicolor (Burmeister 1838)
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Geographic distribution
Distribution
No economic damages registered
- Argentina
- Buenos Aires
- Chaco
- Corrientes
- Entre Ríos
- Misiones
- Salta
- Santa Fe
- Santiago del Estero
- Tucumán
- Uruguay
Other distribution
Also known from Brazil (Maldonado Capriles, 1990).
- Myiocoris (sic) bicolor Burmeister 1838
- Euagoras nigricornis Stål 1855
Large numbers of adults of this species were found under bark, in rodent caves and edentados under stones attacking nymphs of Triatoma rubrovaria and T. infestans in Liebig, Entre Ríos province (Carpintero 1981).
The offspring and adults were reared in the laboratory and fed with larvae of Spodoptera frugiperda (Smith, 1797) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) (Gil-Santana et al. 2013).
The offspring and adults were reared in the laboratory and fed with larvae of Spodoptera frugiperda (Smith, 1797) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) (Gil-Santana et al. 2013).
It was was found inside a corn field without information on the prey of this species (Gil-Santana et al. 2013). Also found in nests of Furnarius rufus (Furnariidae) in Argentina (Turienzo & Di Iorio 2010).
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- PENNINGTON, M.S. 1920-1921. Lista de los Hemípteros Heterópteros de la República Argentina. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- RUFFINELLI A. & PIRÁN A.A. 1959. Hemípteros heterópteros del Uruguay. Boletín de la Facultad de Agronomía, Montevideo 51: 1–60.
- QUINTANILLA, R. H., MARGHERITIS, A. E., & RIZZO, H. F. 1968. Catálogo de hemípteros hallados en la Provincia de Entre Ríos. Revista de la Facultad de Agronomía y Veterinaria de Buenos Aires 16(3): 29-38.
- QUINTANILLA, R.H., A.E. MARGHERITIS AND H.F. RIZZO. 1975-1976. Catálogo de hemípteros hallados en la Provincia de Corrientes. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 35(1–4): 115–133.
- 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.
- MALDONADO CAPRILES, J. 1990. Systematic catalogue of the Reduviidae of the World (Insecta: Heteroptera). Caribbean Journal of Science, special edition, i-x, 1-694.
- TURIENZO, P. & DI IORIO, O. . 2010. Insects found in birds’ nests from Argentina. Furnarius rufus (Gmelin, 1788) (Aves: Furnariidae) and their inquiline birds, the true hosts of Acanthocrios furnarii (Cordero & Vogelsang, 1928) (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cimicidae). Zootaxa 2700: 1–112.
- GIL-SANTANA, H., L.-R. DAVRANOGLOU & J.A. NEVES. 2013. A new synonymy of Graptocleptes bicolor (Burmeister), with taxonomical notes (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae: Harpactorini). Zootaxa 3700(3): 348–360.
