Species info
Classification > Superfamily Miroidea > Family Miridae > Subfamily Bryocorinae > Tribe Eccritotarsini > Genus Caulotops
Caulotops platensis (Berg 1883)
(USNM) - Photo by Eugenia Minghetti with permission from the National Museum of Natural History (USNM), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
(USNM) - Photo by Eugenia Minghetti with permission from the National Museum of Natural History (USNM), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
(USNM) - Photo by Eugenia Minghetti with permission from the National Museum of Natural History (USNM), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
(USNM) - Photo by Eugenia Minghetti with permission from the National Museum of Natural History (USNM), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
(USNM) - Photo by Eugenia Minghetti with permission from the National Museum of Natural History (USNM), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
(USNM) - Photo by Eugenia Minghetti with permission from the National Museum of Natural History (USNM), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
(USNM) - Photo by Eugenia Minghetti with permission from the National Museum of Natural History (USNM), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
 
Geographic distribution
Distribution
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  • Argentina
    • Buenos Aires
Other distribution
 
Synonyms
  • Caulotops puncticollis Bergroth 1898
Observations
Type deposited at Museo de La Plata (Coscarón & Carpintero 1996). This female holotype apparently is lost, so a male has been designated as the Neotype (Henry & Menard 2020).
Also, a female lectotype and the paralectotypes have been selected for Caulotops puncticollis, and are deposited at Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki (Henry & Menard 2020).
According to Henry & Menard 2020 Eryngium agavifolium is an incidental host and the true host remains to be discovered.
Host plants
Eryngium agavifolium
Links
References
  • BERG, C. 1883. Addenda et emendanda ad Hemiptera Argentina. Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina. 16: 105–125.
  • PENNINGTON M.S. 1920-1921. Lista de los Hemípteros Heterópteros de la República Argentina. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • 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.
  • HENRY, T. J. & MENARD, K. L. . 2020. Revision and Phylogeny of the Eccritotarsine Plant Bug Genus Caulotops Bergroth, with Descriptions of Four New Genera and 14 New Species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Bryocorinae) Associated with Agave (Agavoideae: Asparagaceae) and Related Plant Genera. Zootaxa 4772 (2): 201–252.
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