Species info
Classification > Superfamily Miroidea > Family Miridae > Subfamily Bryocorinae > Tribe Eccritotarsini > Genus Pycnoderes
Pycnoderes quadrimaculatus Guérin-Ménéville 1857
(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
    • Buenos Aires
    • Catamarca
    • Chaco
    • Entre Ríos
    • Jujuy
    • Misiones
    • Salta
    • Tucumán
Other distribution
Also known from Brazil (Arellano & Vergara 2016; Carvalho 1980; Carvalho & Afonso 1977), Suriname (Carvalho & Rosas 1965), USA (Henry & Smith 1979; Knight 1968; Snodgrass et al. 1984; Young 1984), Puerto Rico (Maldonado Capriles 1969), Peru (Arellano & Vergara 2016; Carvalho & Ferreira 1972), Colombia (Carvalho & Afonso 1977), Guatemala (Carvalho & Afonso 1977), Panama (Carvalho & Afonso 1977), Cuba (Hernández & Henry 2010), Hawaii (Holdaway & Look 1942), Mexico (González-Lucas et al. 2019; Young 1984), Nicaragua (Cherot et al. 2006), Venezuela (Carzorla-Perfetti & Morales-Moreno 2019), Dominican Republic (Hemp & Dettner 2000) and Costa Rica (Hemp & Dettner 2000).
 
Observations
The type specimen deposited at Natural History Museum Vienna (Carvalho 1980).
The records from Chaco and Buenos Aires Provinces come from the specimens deposited at Museo de La Plata.
This pest species, known as the bean capsid, feeds on the undersurface of its host leaves, often causing severe chlorosis and leaf dieback (Ferreira & Henry 2011).
Host plants
Phaseolus vulgaris "common bean, green bean or French bean"
Phaseolus lunatus "lima bean, butter bean, sieva bean, Double Bean or Madagascar bean"
Amaranthus sp.
Cucurbita maxima
Cucurbita pepo
Cucumis sativus "cucumber"
Brassica rapa chinensis "white mustard cabbage"
Brassica rapa pekinensis "napa or nappa cabbage"
Lactuca sativa "lettuce"
Daucus carota "carrot"
Portulaca oleracea
Carica papaya "papaya, papaw or pawpaw"
Sechium edule "mirliton squash"
Sinapis alba "white mustard"
Ipomoea batatas "sweetpotato"
Abelmoschus esculentus "okra"
Carya illinoinensis "pecan"
It was collected in Chanchamayo between the papaya trees (Arellano & Vergara 2016).
Links
References
  • HOLDAWAY, F. G. & LOOK, W. C. . 1942. Insects of the Garden Bean in Hawaii. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society. 11(2): 249-260.
  • 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.
  • KNIGHT, H. H. 1968. Taxonomic review: Miridae of the Nevada test site and the western United States. Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series 9: 282pp.
  • MALDONADO CAPRILES, J. 1969. The Miridae of Puerto Rico (Insecta, Hemiptera). University of Puerto Rico Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Paper 45: 133 pp.
  • 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.
  • CARVALHO, J. C. M. & AFONSO, C. R. S. 1977. Mirideos neotropicais, CCVIII: Sôbre uma coleçao enviada para estudo pela Academia de Ciencias da California (Hemiptera). Revista Brasileira de Biologia 37: 7-16.
  • HENRY, T. J. AND C. L. SMITH. 1979. An annotated list of the Miridae of Georgia (Hemiptera-Heteroptera). Journal of the Georgia Entomological Society 14: 212-220.
  • CARVALHO J.C.M. 1980. Analecta Miridologica, III: Observations on type specimens in the Natural History Museums of Wien and Genova (Hemiptera, Miridae). Revista Brasileira de Biologia 40: 643-647.
  • SNODGRASS, G. L., HENRY, T. J. & SCOTT, W. P. . 1984. An annotated list of the Miridae (Hwteroptera) found in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta and associated areas in Arkansas and Louisiana. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 86: 845--860.
  • YOUNG, D. K. 1984. Field records and observations of insects associated with cantharidin. Great Lakes Entomologist 17(4): 195-199.
  • 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.
  • HEMP, C., & DETTNER, K. . 2000. Attraction of Miridae and Lygaeidae (Heteroptera) to cantharidin. Ecotropica 6(1): 99-102.
  • CHEROT F., CARPINTERO D.L. & MAES J.M. 2006. Sur une collection de Miridae du Nicaragua (Insecta, Heteroptera). Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie (N. S.) 23(2): 173-190.
  • HERNANDEZ, L. M. & HENRY, T. J. 2010. The plant bugs, or Miridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), of Cuba. Pensoft Series Faunistica No. 92: 212 pp.
  • FERREIRA, P.S.F. & HENRY, T. J. . 2011. Synopsis and keys to the tribes, genera, and species of Miridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of Minas Gerais, Brazil Part I: Bryocorinae. Zootaxa 2920: 1–41.
  • ARELLANO, G. & VERGARA, C. 2016. Especies de miridae (hemiptera) registradas en algunos cultivos tropicales en Chanchamayo y Satipo. Junín – Perú. Ecol. Apl. Vol. 15. Lima jul./dic. 2016.
  • CAZORLA-PERFETTI, D. & MORALES-MORENO, P. 2019. Primer registro de Pycnoderes quadrimaculatus Guérin-Méneville (Heteroptera: Miridae) en Venezuela. Revista Chilena de Entomología 45(2):
  • GONZÁLEZ-LUCAS, J., BÁEZ-SANTACRUZ, J., SERNA-LAGUNES, R., LLARENA-HERNÁNDEZ, R. C., NÚÑEZ-PASTRANA, R., & REYNOSO-VELASCO, D. 2019. Chinche fitófagas (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) asociadas al cultivo de Chayote (Sechium edule Jacq.) en el centro de Veracruz, México. Entomología mexicana 6: 170−176.
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