“…Podisus nigrispinus (Dallas) (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) is one of the most studied Asopinae predator in Brazil besides Podisus rostralis (Stäl) , Matos Neto et al, 1998, Podisus distinctus (Stäl) , Oliveira et al, 1999, Podisus sculptus Distant (Nascimento et al, 1997), Brontocoris tabidus (Signoret) (Barcelos et al, 1994;Zanuncio et al, 2000) and Supputius cincticeps (Stäl) , Azevedo and Ramalho 1999a, 1999b, Wanderley and Ramalho 1999. Studies on biology (Medeiros et al, 1998, Moreira et al, 1998, ecology and nutrition (Saavedra et al 1996 have been developed but little is known about the reproductive tract, internal morphology and histology of P. nigrispinus.…”