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Proxys Spinola, 1837

Proxys Spinola, 1837: 325-326.

Type Species: Cimex victor Fabricius, 1775, by monotypy.

Included Species:
    albopunctulatus
(Palisot de Beauvois)
    obtusicornis Stål
    punctulatus (Palisot de Beauvois)
    victor (Fabricius)

Comments:

Key to species of Proxys Spinola

1      Bucculae completely black; pro-, meso-, and metafemora each usually banded with black apically (U.S., Mexico, Central America, northwestern South America)

punctulatus (Palisot de Beauvois)

-       Ventral margins of bucculae narrowly yellow, especially anteriorly and posteriorly; pro-, and mesofemora never banded with black apically, sometimes metafemora each with black apical band

2

   

2(1)  Metafemora lacking apical black bands; ventral margin of male pygophore distinctly inflated, produced posteroventrad; lateral wall of pygophore with 20 or more longitudinal ridges (South America)

albopunctulatus (Palisot de Beauvois

-       Metafemora each usually banded with black apically; ventral margin of male pygophore not inflated or produced; lateral wall of pygophore with 15 or less longitudinal ridges

3

   

3(2)   Each humeral angle obtusely rounded or somewhat truncate with posterior margin produced into short, caudoventrally directed spine (Colombia)

obtusicornis StDl

–       Each humeral angle acuminately spinose

4

   

4(3)   Evaporatoria bicolored, elevated rugae between black punctures yellow to brown; ridges on lateral wall of male pygophore of equal prominence (West Indies)

victor "b"

–       Evaporatoria usually unicolorously fuscous to black; subdorsal ridge on lateral wall of male pygophore prominent, produced into prominent ridge or tubercle (Mexico, Central America, northern South America)

victor "a"


 

punctulatus (Pal. Beauv.)

   

 

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