Illustrated key for identification of the species included in the genus Leptoglossus (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae: Anisoscelini), and descriptions of five new species and new synonyms
Author
Brailovsky, Harry
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Zootaxa
2014
3794
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.3794.1.7
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Leptoglossus occidentalis
Heidemann
(
Fig. 63
)
Leptoglossus occidentalis
Heidemann, 1919: 196
-197.
Narnia anaticula
Brailovsky & Barrera, 2013
: 286
–289.
nov. syn.
During the revision of the genus
Leptoglossus
two specimens which shared structural characters with the genus
Narnia
, were set aside. That led
Brailovsky & Barrera (2013)
to review the genus
Narnia
, describing a new species named
N. anaticula
, splitting the genus into two natural groups of species, and including a dichotomous key for the identification of the known species. Morphologically this species resembled
Leptoglossus occidentalis
Heidemann
, differing in being smaller, less than
16 mm
., and especially because it was collected on
Opuntia
sp. (Cactacea).
Leptoglossus occidentalis
live on conifers and its size usually exceeds
18 mm
.
After its publication my colleagues Richard Packauskas (FHSU), and Petr Kment (NMPC) suggested that it could be
L. occidentalis
, a species with a wide distribution in
Canada
,
U. S. A.
and northern
Mexico
and which in recent years has colonized extensive areas in Europe.
Re-evaluating the characters above and comparing them with the extensive collection of
L. occidentalis
deposited at UNAM, I accept the critical observations offered and formally synonymize
N. anaticula
under
Leptoglossus occidentalis
.