The genus Anisoscelis Latreille (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae: Anisoscelini): new species, taxonomical arrangements, distributional records and key
Author
Brailovsky, Harry
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Zootaxa
2016
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195
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4144.2.3
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Anisoscelis (Anisoscelis) discolor
(Stål)
(
Fig. 18
)
Diactor discolor
Stål, 1854
: 235
Diagnosis.
Head pale to dark yellowish castaneous; antennal segment I brown with inner face pale yellow, segments II–III brown with basal and apical joint yellow, IV dark brownish castaneous with apical third paler; pronotum dark castaneous, punctures darker, calli pale castaneous, anterolateral borders black; scutellum dark castaneous and apically yellow; clavus and corium dark castaneous with costal and apical margins yellow; hemelytral membrane pale brown, veins darker; connexivum yellow, inner margin brown; abdomen dorsally black with metallic bluish-green reflections; ventrally pale yellow; labial segments I–II pale yellow, III–IV pale castaneous; coxae, trochanters, femora, fore tibiae, middle tibiae and tarsi yellow; inner expansion of hind tibiae dark reddish with basal and wide transverse stripe close to midline yellow; outer expansion dark reddish with proximal and distal third yellow; inner angle of posterior margin of mesopleura with black to dark brown discoidal spot close to anterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme; labium reaching posterior border of abdominal sternite III; humeral angles subacute, directed backward.
Distribution.
Stål (1854)
described
A. discolor
from Taiti? (sic) and later was recorded from
Ecuador
(
Campos 1925
). The genus has an exclusive Neotropical distribution therefore, I consider that the original data was a result of a mistaken label.
Ecuador
:
Guayaquil (
Campos 1925
,
Packauskas 2010
).
Type material examined.
Holotype female:
Taiti
(sic), Kinb. (NHRS).
Material
examined.
New
records.
1 male
,
Ecuador
,
Manabi
,
Pedernales
,
24-I-1999
, leg.
G. Onore
(
UNAM
)
.
1 female
,
Ecuador
,
Los Rios
Quevedo,
2-V-1986
, leg.
D. H. Habeck
(
FSCA
)
.
Biological notes.
Associated with
Passiflora edulis
Sims (Passifloraceae)
.