Kernegaster pinguis (Germar 1839)
 
Geographic distribution
Distribution
No economic damages registered
  • Argentina
    • Santiago del Estero
Other distribution
Also known from Brazil.
 
  • Pachycoris pinguis Germar, 1839
  • Tetyra pinguis: Stal, 1870
Female holotype from Brazil deposited in the Benedict Dybowski Zoological Museum of the National University of Lviv (Schmitz et al. 2025).
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).
  • 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
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