Revisiting the South American Acanthocephalini (Hemiptera, Coreidae): Spilopleura Stål (status novum)

The family Coreidae is composed of some the larger terrestrial Heteroptera, with showy colors and expansions on legs, antenna or pronotum. Among Neotropical fauna, tribe Acanthocephalini Stål, including 18 genera, recognized by strongly deflexed juga, conspicuously projecting tylus. In same work in which Stål established tribe, he described two new subgenera to genus Acanthocephala Laporte (currently synonymized under it): A. (Metapodius) (replaced for Metapodiessa Kirkaldy) (Spilopleura). present work, subgeneric name Spilopleura removed from synonymy elevated generic rank, species parensis (Dallas) ochracea Montandon are transferred therein. status nov. both included redescribed illustrated, characters male female genitalia; a distributional map given first records Argentina, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru.