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Miroidea
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Miridae
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Bryocorinae
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Monaloniini
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Monalonion
Monalonion dissimulatum Distant 1883
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Geographic distribution
Distribution
No economic damages registered
- Argentina
- Formosa
Other distribution
Also known from Guatemala (Distant 1883), Ecuador (Carvalho 1972), Colombia (Carvalho 1972), Suriname (Carvalho 1972; Carvalho & Rosas 1965), Peru (Carvalho & Afonso 1977; Carvalho & Ferreira 1972), Bolivia (Carvalho 1972), Brazil (Carvalho 1972) and Venezuela (Carvalho 1972).
- Monalonion collaris Distant, 1917
- Monalonion megiston Kirkaldy, 1902
Lectotype deposited at British Museum of Natural History (Carvalho & Dolling 1976).
This species is an important pest of cacao crops in many countries in South America (Vargas et al. 2005)
This species is an important pest of cacao crops in many countries in South America (Vargas et al. 2005)
Theobroma cacao "cacao"
- DISTANT, W. L. 1883. Insecta. Rhynchota. Hemiptera-Heteroptera. Biologia Centrali Americana, Vol. 1., pp. 225--264.
- CARVALHO, J. C. M. 1972. Mirideos neotropicais, CXLVI: Genero Monalonion H.-S., 1853 (Hemiptera). Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias 44: 119-143.
- CARVALHO, J. C. M. & FERREIRA, P. S. F. . 1972. Mirideos neotropicais CXLV: Estudo de duas coleçoes da Republica do Peru (Hemiptera). Revista Brasileira de Biologia 32: 177-183.
- 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.
- VARGAS, A.; SOMARRIBA, E. & CARBALLO, M. . 2005. Dinámica poblacional del chinche (Monalonion dissimulatum Dist.) y daño de mazorcas en plantaciones orgánicas de cacao del Alto Beni, Bolivia. Agroforestería en las Américas Nº 43-44
