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

• Autores: Diego L. Carpintero Carpintero, Igor Berkunsky, Rosana Aramburú
• Localización: Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, ISSN-e 1853-0400, ISSN 1514-5158, Vol. 13, Nº. 2, 2011, págs. 205-212
• Idioma: español
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  • First record of Blue-Crowned Parrot Aratinga a. acuticaudata (Aves: Psittacidae) as primarynative host of Ornithocoris toledoi Pinto (Cimicidae: Hemiptera: Heteroptera). The primarynatural 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 newdistributional record of this bug in Argentina. A brief discussion about the taxonomy is also given and some populationparameters are compared with those of other bug species. Finally, we discuss possible infestation ways inthe current state of knowledge, including other birds (Furnariidae) and bats (Chiroptera).