Check List 19(5): 735-741, doi: 10.15560/19.5.735

First record of Gargaphia paula Drake, 1939 (Hemiptera, Tingidae) from Colombia, with a new host plant and an updated checklist of Gargaphia species in the country

Jean Gamboa^‡§, Carolina Fontecha^§, Erika Valentina Vergara-Navarro^§|, Yennifer Andrea Carreño-Guevara^‡, John Quiroz^¶, Francisco Serna^§

‡ Universidad de la Amazonia, Florencia, Colombia§ Universidad Nacional de Colombia sede Bogotá, Bogotá D.C., Colombia| Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria AGROSAVIA, Mosquera, Colombia¶ Universidad Nacional de Colombia sede Medellín, Medellín, Colombia

Corresponding author: Jean Gamboa ( jagamboat@unal.edu.co )

Academic editor: Hélcio Gil-Santana

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Citation: Gamboa J, Fontecha C, Vergara-Navarro EV, Carreño-Guevara YA, Quiroz J, Serna F (2023) First record of Gargaphia paula Drake, 1939 (Hemiptera, Tingidae) from Colombia, with a new host plant and an updated checklist of Gargaphia species in the country. Check List 19(5): 735-741. https://doi.org/10.15560/19.5.735

Abstract

Gargaphia paula Drake, 1939 is recorded for the first time for Colombia in two extreme localities, one in the northern region of the country and the other in the southeast. Moreover, it was found on Calopogonium mucunoides Desv. (Fabaceae), a new host plant recorded for the species.

Keywords

Amazonia, distribution, host, lacebug, phytophagous