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Miroidea
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Miridae
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Orthotylinae
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Ceratocapsini
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Ceratocapsus
Ceratocapsus dispersus Carvalho & Fontes 1983
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Geographic distribution
Distribution
No economic damages registered
- Argentina
- Corrientes
- Misiones
- Salta
Other distribution
Also konwn from Brazil (Carvalho et al. 1983), Ecuador (Carvalho et al. 1983), Paraguay (Carvalho et al. 1983), Peru (Carvalho et al. 1983) and Venezuela (Carvalho et al. 1983).
Male Holotype and some Paratypes deposited at Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (Carvalho et al. 1983). Other Paratypes deposited at Museo de Historia Natural y Antropologia de Rio de Janeiro and American Museum of Natural History (Carvalho et al. 1983).
One specimen collected predating on Heliothis virescens larva, commonly known as the "tobacco budworm" (Carvalho et al. 1983).
One specimen collected predating on Heliothis virescens larva, commonly known as the "tobacco budworm" (Carvalho et al. 1983).
Gossypium hirsutum "upland cotton" or "Mexican cotton"
- CARVALHO, J. C. M, FONTES, A. V. & HENRY, T. J. . 1983. Taxonomy of South American species of Ceratocapsus, with descriptions of 45 new species (Hemiptera: Miridae). United States Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin 1676.
- 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.
- MELO M.C., DELLAPÉ P.M., CARPINTERO D.L. & COSCARÓN M.C. 2004. Reduviidae, Miridae, y Lygaeoidea colectados en Colonia Carlos Pellegrini (Esteros del Iberá, Corrientes, Argentina). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 63 (1-2): 59-67.
