Pycnoderes sixeonotoides Carvalho and Hussey

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Pycnoderes sixeonotoides Carvalho and Hussey, 1954: 4 (orig. descrip.).

Diagnosis. General color black. Head black, with area around eyes yellowish. Pronotum strongly and coarsely punctate and uniformly convex, without median furrow; pronotum and scutellum shiny black. Hemelytra with pale translucent spots; clavus and corium black; embolium black with a pale translucent spot on basal 1/3 and apex; cuneus pale translucent with base and apex black; membrane fuscous, veins black. Length 2.85–3.40 mm.

Host. Unknown.

Distribution. Brazil (Minas Gerais, Santa Catarina), Paraguay (Carvalho, 1957).

Minas Gerais specimens examined. None examined.

Other specimens examined: 1 Ƥ, Argentina, 25 km N Guemes, 10 Oct. 1968, L. E. Peña (USNM); 1 Ƥ, Argentina, Tucuman, 18 Apr. 1913, T. C. Barber (USNM). 43 (paratypes), Brazil, Nova Teutonia, 27º11’S, 52º23’W, F. Plaumann (USNM). 2 ƤƤ (paratypes), Paraguay, Villarridca Distr., Col. Independencia, 5 Nov. 1951, R. F. Hussey (USNM).