Pangaeus ( Pangaeus ) moestus (Stål), Stal

Pangaeus ( Pangaeus) moestus (Stål)

Diagnosis. This species can be delimited by the presence of two setigerous punctures on the costa, and the corium is polished. Body length 5.38 mm.

Head. Anterior margin a full semicircle; tylus as long as juga; surface shining, impunctate, with obsolete, radiating rugae; jugum with single submarginal puncture near eye; ocelli moderate; bucculae about half as high as labial II; rostrum attaining base of middle coxae. Pronotum. Anterior margin shallowly emarginated; lateral margin almost straight on basal half, with five setigerous punctures submarginally; transverse impression submedian, lightly impressed across full width; anterior lobe impunctate except for four to five punctures laterally; posterior lobe with less than ten punctures medially; propleuron shining, distinctly punctuate only in depression; prosternal carina less than half as high as rostral II; meso- and metapleuron with lateral area impunctate, evaporatorium with lateral margin straight. Scutellum. Disc polished, with sparse, scattered punctures. Hemelytra. Clavus and corium polished; clavus with one row of strong punctures; corium virtually impunctate except for one complete and interrupted second row of mesocorial punctures; costa with two setigerous punctures. Legs. Hind tibia without subbasal spine ventrally, posteroventral margin with four spines.

Old records. Acatenango ( Froeschner, 1960).

New records. 2 females, 2 males, Suchitepequez, Finca Los Tarrales, 10 km N of Patulul, 14° 32’24’’ N 91° 09’40’’, 1050m, 5/VI/2005, R. Zack (WSUC, UVGC, CNIN, IEXA).