Atracodes sanctaeluciae Fennah, 1965

Levia, Nathaniel N. & Bartlett, Charles R., 2025, A review of the genera Atracodes Melichar and Pseudoflatoides Metcalf (Hemiptera: Flatidae: Flatoidinae) from the Caribbean region, Zootaxa 5590 (2), pp. 231-255 : 252

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5590.2.4

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14953064

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scientific name

Atracodes sanctaeluciae Fennah, 1965
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Atracodes sanctaeluciae Fennah, 1965 View in CoL

Type locality. Castries, St. Lucia

Synoptic diagnosis. Atracodes sanctaeluciae can be distinguished from congeners by: patterning similar to A. indutus , covered in a grayish-white pruinescence; vertex 1.5 times longer than width between eyes (Fennah 1965, fig. 99); hind tibia with 3 lateral teeth, apical spinulation 6-5-2; phallothecal complex stout (Fennah 1965, fig. 100), curved upward bearing three pairs of elongated slender processes, 2 subapical pairs and 1 pair from the ventrolateral subapical margin projecting retrorsely, strongly curving dorsad. Anal tube in lateral view narrow, deflexed in distal third (Fennah 1965).

Plant associations. None.

Distribution. St. Lucia.

Material examined. HOLOTYPE: Type // ST. LUCIA / Castries / 4.XI.1935 / H.E.Box // Atracodes / sanctaeluciae / det. RGFennah Fenn. // NHMUK015981665 ( BMNH, male).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Flatidae

SubFamily

Flatoidinae

Tribe

Flatoidini

Genus

Atracodes

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