Classification > Superfamily
Miroidea
> Family
Miridae
> Subfamily
Deraeocorinae
> Tribe
Clivinemini
> Genus
Ambracius
Ambracius dufouri Stål 1860
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Geographic distribution
Distribution
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- Argentina
- Chaco
- Corrientes
- Jujuy
- Misiones
- Salta
Other distribution
Also known from Brazil (Ferreira & Henry2010; Stål 1860), Peru (Carvalho & Afonso 1977), Cuba (Hernández & Henry 2010), Guatemala (Ferreira & Henry 2010) and Colombia (Ferreira & Henry 2010).
- Fundanius maculatus Distant 1884
- Fundanius marginatus Distant 1884
- Fundanius rubricosus Distant 1884
- Capsus alternus Walker 1873
- Fundanius bicolor Distant 1888
Material studied by Stål is deposited at Swedish Museum of Natural History (Stål 1860), and it has been identified as type.
According to Carvalho & Dolling 1976 the female Lectotype of Fundanius maculatus Distant 1884, the male Lectotype and one Paralectotype of Fundanius marginatus Distant 1884, and the female Lectotype and two Paralectotypes of Fundanius rubricosus Distant 1884 are deposited at the British Museum of Natural History.
According to Carvalho 1954 the type of Fundanius bicolor Distant 1888 is deposited at Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences and the female type of Capsus alternus Walker 1873 is deposited at the British Museum of Natural History.
This species is a known specialist predator of ensign scales (Wheeler 2001; Ferreira & Henry 2010)
According to Carvalho & Dolling 1976 the female Lectotype of Fundanius maculatus Distant 1884, the male Lectotype and one Paralectotype of Fundanius marginatus Distant 1884, and the female Lectotype and two Paralectotypes of Fundanius rubricosus Distant 1884 are deposited at the British Museum of Natural History.
According to Carvalho 1954 the type of Fundanius bicolor Distant 1888 is deposited at Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences and the female type of Capsus alternus Walker 1873 is deposited at the British Museum of Natural History.
This species is a known specialist predator of ensign scales (Wheeler 2001; Ferreira & Henry 2010)
- STÅL C. 1860. Bidrag till Rio Janeiro-traktens, Hemipter-fauna. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps- Akademiens Handlingar 2: 1–84.
- CARVALHO J.M.C. 1952. Neotropical Miridae, L: On the present generic assignment of the species in the Biologia Centrali Americana (Hemiptera). Boletim do Museu Nacional, Zoologia 118: 1-17.
- CARVALHO, J. C. M. 1954. Neotropical Miridae, LXXVII: Miscellaneous observations in some European Museums (Hemiptera). Annales da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias 26: 423-427.
- CARVALHO J.M.C. & DOLLING W.R. . 1976. Neotropical Miridae, CCV: Type designations of species described in the "Biologia Centrali Americana" (Hemiptera). Revista Brasileira de Biologia 36: 789-810.
- 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.
- 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.
- SCHUH, R.T. 1995. Plant bugs of the world (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae) Systematic Catalog, Distributions, Host List, and Bibliography. New York Entomological Society, New York, 1329 pp.
- WHEELER, A. G., JR. . 2001. Biology of the Plant Bugs (Hemiptera: Miridae). Pests, Predators, Opportunists. Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London. 507 pp.
- CARPINTERO, D. L., DELLAPÉ, P. M. & CHELLI, G. 2008. Valdesiana curiosa: a remarkable new genus and species of Clivinematini (Hemiptera: Miridae: Deraeocorinae) from Argentina, and a key to Argentinean genera and species. Zootaxa 1672: 61–68.
- FERREIRA, P.S.F. & HENRY, T. J. . 2010. Revision of the genus Ambracius Stål, 1860 (Heteroptera: Miridae: Deraeocorinae: Clivinematini), with descriptions of three new species. Zootaxa 2485: 1–15
- HERNÁNDEZ L.M. & HENRY T.J. 2010. The plant bugs, or Miridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), of Cuba. Pensoft Series Faunistica No. 92: 212 pp.
