Pachymeroceroides bromeliae Carvalho 1946

Abstract

Pachymeroceroides bromeliae (Carvalho, 1946) Eurycipitia bromeliae Carvalho, 1946. Pachymeroceroides bromeliae, Carvalho & Gomes, 1971. Diagnosis. Coloration uniformly dark with blue metallic bright. Eyes contiguous to anterior margin of pronotum. Rostrum reaching hind coxae. Exocorium fossa of male with elevated edges. Description. Male (Fig. 1a). Measurements (Table 1). Small size (3 to 4.1 mm), uniformly dark-brownish with metallic bright blue. Dorsal surface slightly punctuated on pronotum, with scattered erect pubescence, denser in head, pronotum, and lateral margins of hemelytra. Head lightly twice wider than longer; front declivous; vertex contiguous to collar; rostrum yellowish; antennal segments black, antennal I and II cylindrical, other antennals slender; antennal I shorter than length of vertex between eyes; antennal I, II, and III with dense adpressed vestiture, equal or shorter than width, and antennal IV with erect hairs longer than width of segment; relative lengths of antennal segments from shortest to longest: I