Atracodes lichenoides ( Metcalf & Bruner, 1948 ), 2025

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 : 250-251

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scientific name	Atracodes lichenoides ( Metcalf & Bruner, 1948 )
status	comb. nov.

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Atracodes lichenoides ( Metcalf & Bruner, 1948) comb. nov.

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= Pseudoflatoides lichenoides Metcalf & Bruner, 1948: 111 View in CoL

Type locality. Pico Turquino , Santiago de Cuba (as Oriente) Province, Cuba.

Synoptic diagnosis. Atracodes lichenoides comb. nov. can be distinguished from congeners by: body and tegmina relatively darkly marked, general color ochraceous and tawny; crossveins ir, r-m, m-cu, icu and between CuA and A 1 darkened; hind tibia with 2 lateral teeth, apical spinulation 7(5+2)-10-2; phallothecal complex nearly straight ( Metcalf & Bruner 1948, plate XVI, fig. 3), appearing distally bilobed bearing two pairs of processes present, a slender subapical pair and a stout pair extending from lateral ventral margin; gonostyli broad in lateral view, ventral margin nearly linear.

Plant associations. None.

Distribution. Cuba.

Material examined. June 10–29/[19]36 / J. Acuña, col. // Pico Turquino / Cuba, 1650 ft. / [illegible] // Pseudoflatoides / lichenoides / Metc. & Brun. det. Z. P. M. // UDCC _TCN 00102983 ( NCSU, male; this specimen may be the holotype) .