The long-misidentified stalk-eyed bug Epipolops quadrispinus Stål is redescribed and its identity is clarified, and Epipolops tuberculatus new species is described from Colombia based on specimens previously misidentified as E. quadrispinus. Dorsal and lateral habitus images of the adults and male genital capsules are provided to facilitate identification.
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13 April 2022
A New Species of the Stalk-Eyed Bug Genus Epipolops from Colombia, with Clarification on the Identity and a Redescription of Epipolops quadrispinus Stål (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Geocoridae)
Thomas J. Henry,
Oscar Ascuntar-Osnas
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big-eyedbugs
descriptions
diagnoses
Epipolopini
Insecta
Lygaeoidea
neotropical