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Tigava
Tigava pulchella Champion 1897
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Geographic distribution
Distribution
No economic damages registered
- Argentina
- Jujuy
- Salta
Other distribution
Cuba, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua.
The adult is illustrated in Champion (1897-1901), the fifth nynmph is described and illustrated in Guilbert & Montemayor (2010) and photographed in Maes & Knudson (2016). The species was recorded for the first time for Argentine in the provinces of Salta and Jujuy by Guilbert & Montemayor (2010). Henry et al. (2017) provide a key to recognize the genus Tigava from other genera of the Tigava complex and present a characterization of the genus.
Solanum torvum ; Persea americana; Chorisia .
- CHAMPION, G. C. 1897-1901. Insecta. Rynchota. Hemiptera-Heteroptera. Vol.2 In: Godman, F. D. & Salvin, O. (Eds), Biologia Centrali-Americana Taylor & Francis, London 416 pp. + 22 plates.
- GUILBERT, E. & S. I. MONTEMAYOR. 2010. Tingidae (Insecta, Heteroptera) from the Argentinan Yungas: new records and descriptions of selected fifth instars. Zoosystema 32(4): 549-565.
- MAES. J. M. & A. KNUDSON. 2016. Tingidae (Heteroptera) de Nicaragua. Revista Nicaragüense de Entomología, 113: 3-63.
- HENRY, T.J., S.I. MONTEMAYOR & A.H. KNUDSON. 2017. Review of the New World Tigava Lace Bug Complex (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae), with the Description of Two New Genera and Two New Species and a Key to Genera. Dugesiana 24(2): 269-277.
