Primer registro del Calancate Común Aratinga a. acuticaudata (Aves: Psittacidae) como huésped nativo primario de Ornithocoris toledoi Pinto (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cimicidae)

CARPINTERO, DIEGO L.; BERKUNSKY, IGOR; ARAMBURÚ, ROSANA

Revista Museo Argentino Ciencias Naturales

Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia"

Año: 2011 vol. 13 p. 205 - 212

1514-5158

The primary natural host of cimicid bug Ornithocoris toledoi Pinto (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cimicidae) is presented as Blue-Crowned Parrot Aratinga a. acuticaudata (Aves: Psittacidae). Its presence in the Chaco province is also a new distributional record of this bug in Argentina. A brief discussion about the taxonomy is also given and some population parameters are compared with those of other bug species. Finally, we discuss possible infestation ways in the current state of knowledge, including other birds (Furnariidae) and bats (Chiroptera).