Species info
Classification > Superfamily Miroidea > Family Miridae > Subfamily Bryocorinae > Tribe Eccritotarsini > Genus Mecolaemus
Mecolaemus carvalhoi (Costa Lima 1942)
(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
    • Jujuy
Other distribution
Also known from Brazil (Costa Lima 1942), Colombia (Alvarez-Zapata et al. 2022) and Venezuela (Alvarez-Zapata et al. 2022).
 
Observations
Holotype and allotype deposited at Museo de Historia Natural y Antropologia de Rio de Janeiro (Costa Lima 1942)
Host plants
Phaseolus vulgaris "common bean, green bean and French bean"
Orchidaceae
Theobroma cacao "cacao tree" or "cocoa tree"
Cattleya gaskelliana "Gaskell's Cattley's orchid"
Cattleya sp.
Vanilla planifolia " flat-leaved vanilla" or "West Indian vanilla"
Links
References
  • COSTA LIMA, A. M. 1942. Percevejos das orquideas. (Hem. Miridae, Bryocorinae). Orquidea, Rio de Janeiro 4: 100-109.
  • 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.
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