Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia‡‡§|Corresponding author: Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia ( diegofrancisco.cisneros@gmail.com ) © Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia. This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Cisneros-Heredia DF (2022) Notes on Stenomacra tungurahuana Brailovsky & Mayorga, 1997 (Hemiptera, Pyrrhocoroidea, Largidae). ARPHA Preprints. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e87246 |  |
The hemipteran Stenomacra tungurahuana Brailovsky & Mayorga was described in 1997 and remains known from just two localities in Ecuador. No ecological information nor description of its colouration in life have been reported for the species.
In this contribution, I present a new record of S. tungurahuana from San Isidro Lodge, province of Napo, that extends its distribution to the northeastern slopes of the Andes of Ecuador, ca. 108 km from its type locality. I discuss the accuracy of the two previously known localities of the species (Baños, type locality, and Quito), suggesting that these localities may be imprecise, and the specimens could have been actually collected on the eastern slopes of the Andes. I provide the first description of the colouration in life of S. tungurahuana, including photographs.