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Miroidea
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Miridae
> Subfamily
Bryocorinae
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Dicyphini
> Genus
Engytatus
Engytatus varians (Distant 1884)
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Geographic distribution
Distribution
No economic damages registered
- Argentina
- Misiones
- Uruguay
Other distribution
Also known from Guatemala (Distant 1884), Suriname (Carvalho & Rosas 1965), Puerto Rico (Hernández & Henry 2010; Maldonado Capriles 1969) and Brazil (Alayo 1974).
Lectotype desposited at British Museum of Natural History (Carvalho & Dolling 1976).
In Brazil, this species has been found to prey on Tuta absoluta eggs and larvae in tobacco crops. It may be a promising candidate for biological control of this pest (Bueno et al. 2013).
It also preys Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) and initial stages of Heliothis virescens (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) (Nogueira et al 2019).
In Brazil, this species has been found to prey on Tuta absoluta eggs and larvae in tobacco crops. It may be a promising candidate for biological control of this pest (Bueno et al. 2013).
It also preys Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) and initial stages of Heliothis virescens (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) (Nogueira et al 2019).
Nicotiana tabacum "tobacco"
- DISTANT, W. L. 1884. Insecta. Rhynchota. Hemiptera-Heteroptera. Biologia Centrali Americana, Vol. 1., pp. 265--304.
- CARVALHO, J. C. M. & A. F. ROSAS. 1965. Mirideos neotropicais, XCV: Genero e especie nova do Suriname, com uma lista de espécies coligidas em Paramaribo (Hemiptera). Revista Brasileira de Biologia 25: 207-210.
- MALDONADO CAPRILES, J. 1969. The Miridae of Puerto Rico (Insecta, Hemiptera). University of Puerto Rico Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Paper 45: 133 pp.
- ALAYO, D. P. 1974. Los Hemipteros de Cuba. Parte XIII. Familia Miridae. Torreia 32: 41 pp.
- CARVALHO, J. M. C. & DOLLING, W. R. . 1976. Neotropical Miridae, CCV: Type designations of species described in the "Biologia Centrali Americana" (Hemiptera). Revista Brasileira de Biologia 36: 789-810.
- CARPINTERO, D. L. & CARVALHO, J. M. C. 1993. An annotated list of the Miridae of the Argentine Republic (Hemiptera). Revista brasileira de Biología 53(3): 397-420.
- HERNANDEZ, L. M. & HENRY, T. J. 2010. The plant bugs, or Miridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), of Cuba. Pensoft Series Faunistica No. 92: 212 pp.
- BUENO, V. H. P.; VAN LENTEREN J. C.; CALIXTO A. M.; SILVA D. B.; SANTIAGO L. D. & PÉREZ L. M. . 2013. New records of Tuta absoluta (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) predation by Brazilian Hemipteran predatory bugs. Journal of Applied Entomology 137: 29–34.
- NOGUEIRA, C. F. B., FERREIRA, P. S. F., COELHO, L. A., MARTINS, D. S. & BARCELLOS, B. D. . 2019. Plant Bugs Predators (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae) with References to Arthropods and Fungi in Brazil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, Rio de Janeiro 91(3)
- BURLA, J. P., CARPINTERO, D. L., & CASTIGLIONI, E. 2021. First report of Engytatus varians (Distant, 1884) (Heteroptera: Miridae: Dicyphini) in Eastern Uruguay and preliminary test on its feeding habits. Entomological Communications, 3, ec03021-ec03021.
