Species info
Classification > Superfamily Miroidea > Family Miridae > Subfamily Bryocorinae > Tribe Eccritotarsini > Genus Eccritotarsus
Eccritotarsus catarinensis (Carvalho 1948)
(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
No economic damages registered
  • Argentina
    • Misiones
Other distribution
Also konwn from Brazil (Carpintero et al. 2006; Carvalho 1948).
 
Observations
Holotype and allotype desposited at Museo de Historia Natural y Antropologia de Rio de Janeiro (Carvalho 1948).
This species has been released in South Africa as a biocontrol agent of Eichhornia crassipes (Coetzee et al.2005; Ajuonu et al. 2009)
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References
  • CARVALHO, J. C. M. 1948. Mirideos neotropicais, XXXI: Genero Pseudobryocoris Distant e uma espécie nova de Neella Reuter (Hemiptera). Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias 20: 96-104.
  • COETZEE, J. A.; CENTER, T. D.; BYRNE, M. J. & HILL, M. P. 2005. Impact of the biocontrol agent Eccritotarsus catarinensis, a sap-feeding mirid, on the competitive performance of waterhyacinth, Eichhornia crassipes. Biological Control Volume 32, Issue 1, Pages 90-96
  • CARPINTERO D.L., DELLAPÉ P.M. & M.C. MELO. 2006. New Records of Heteroptera (Hemiptera) from Argentina. Zootaxa 1129:1-22.
  • AJUONU, O.; BYRNE, M. & HILL, M. 2009. The effect of two biological control agents, the weevil Neochetina eichhorniae and the mirid Eccritotarsus catarinensis on water hyacinth, Eichhornia crassipes, grown in culture with water lettuce, Pistia stratiotes. BioControl 54: 155. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10526-008-9185-6
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