Female holotype from Brazil deposited in the Benedict Dybowski Zoological Museum of the National University of Lviv (Schmitz et al. 2025).
Host plants
On Coffea sp. (Boraginaceae) (Barcellos et al. 2015). Collected on S. terebinthifolia Raddi (Anacardiaceae), and also recorded in Oryza sativa L. (Poaceae) (Ferreira et al., 2001). Host of Hexacladia smithii Ashmead (Burks, 1972) (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae) (Schmitz et al. 2025).
References
BARCELLOS, A., J. EGER, JR., AND J. GRAZIA. . 2015. Scutelleridae. Pp. 409-415, in: Roig-Juñent, L. E. Claps, and J. J. Morrone (eds.), Biodiversidad de Artrópodos Argentinos, vol. 3.
SCHMITZ, L.R., BARCELOS, A., EGER, J. & BIANCHI, F.M. 2025. Kernegaster gen. nov. (Heteroptera, Scutelleridae, Pachycorinae) and six new species based on genital and polychromatic synapomorphies. Zoologischer Anzeiger - A Journal of Comparative Zoology 316: 97–123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2025.03.005