Species info
Classification > Superfamily Coreoidea > Family Coreidae > Subfamily Pseudophloeinae > Tribe Pseudophloeini > Genus Vilga > Subgenus (Vilga)
Vilga westwoodi (Kolenati 1845)
Vilga (Vilga) westwoodi. La Plata Museum.
<i>Vilga (Vilga) westwoodi</i>. La Plata Museum.
Vilga (Vilga) westwoodi. La Plata Museum.
 
Geographic distribution
Distribution
Pest regularly of importance
  • Argentina
    • Corrientes
No economic damages registered
  • Argentina
    • Misiones
Other distribution
Brazil
Bolivia
Paraguay
Trinidad
 
Observations
Location of type material: Natural History Museum, London, (NHMUK) (holotype: female)
Host plants
Nicotiana tabacum "Common tobacco"
Links
References
  • KOLENATI. 1845. Meletemata Entomologica II. Hemiptera Caucasi Tesseratomidae monographice dispositae, Academia Scientiarum, Petropoli 45
  • PENNINGTON. 1920-1921. Lista de los Hemípteros Heterópteros de la República Argentina. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • PENNINGTON. 1922. Notas sobre Coreidos Argentinos. Physis 20(5): 125-170.
  • QUINTANILLA, R.H., A.E. MARGHERITIS AND H.F. RIZZO. 1975-1976. Catálogo de hemípteros hallados en la Provincia de Corrientes. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 35(1–4): 115–133.
  • DOLLING. 1977. A revision of the Neotropical genus Vilga Stäl (Hemiptera: Coreidae). Systematic Entomology, 22: 27-44.
  • PACKAUSKAS. 2010. Catalog of the Coreidae, or leaf-footed bugs of the New World. Fort Hays Studies (Fourth Series) 55: 1-270.
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