The genus Anisoscelis Latreille (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae: Anisoscelini): new species, taxonomical arrangements, distributional records and key
Author
Brailovsky, Harry
text
Zootaxa
2016
4144
2
195
210
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4144.2.3
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Anisoscelis (Bitta) gradadius
Distant
(
Figs. 11–12
,
24
)
Anisoscelis gradadius
Distant, 1881
: 122
Diagnosis.
Head yellow with following areas black: antenniferous tubercle, postocular surface, ocellar tubercle, and neck; pronotum tricolored, anterolateral, posterolateral, and posterior border yellow, humeral angles and transverse stripe between them black, the rest pale to dark orange; scutellum black, lateral margins, middle longitudinal stripe, and apex yellow; clavus and corium dark reddish brown to black; claval and corial veins, and costal and apical margins yellow; hemelytral membrane dark brown; connexivum dark brown, upper border dark yellow; dorsal abdominal segments dark brown, anterior border and irregular spots lateral to midline yellow; antennal segment I black, inner surface yellow, segments II–IV black; ventral surface pale yellow; labial segments I–II pale yellow, III–IV black; coxae pale yellow; trochanters pale yellow with two black longitudinal stripes; femora pale yellow with two complete black longitudinal stripes; fore and middle tibiae yellow with two complete longitudinal stripes; hind tibiae with inner expansion dark reddish with posterior border black and basal angle and middle third pale orange; outer expansion dark reddish with proximal and distal third dark to pale yellow, middle third with transverse dark to pale yellow stripe with 5 to 8 irregular black spots; tarsi pale yellow; labium reaching middle third of abdominal sternite III; humeral angles stout, directed laterally. Parameres.
Figs. 11–12
.
Distribution.
Guatemala
:
Panzos, Panima, Purula, and Senahu.
Panama
:
Bugaba (
Distant 1881
, 1892,
Blöte 1936
,
Froeschner 1999
,
Packauskas 2010
)
Type
material examined.
Paralectotype
, female,
Guatemala
:
Senahu
,
Verapaz
, leg.
Champion
(
BMNH
).
Material
examined.
New
records.
Guatemala
:
1 female
, vic.
Pacaya
,
25-VII-1984
, leg.
E. Hasell
(
UNAM
)
;
1 female
,
Departamento de Guatemala
,
Universidad
del
Valle
,
14-XI-1994
, leg.
G. Alvarez
(
UNAM
)
.
Costa Rica
:
Monteverde
,
15-III-1970
, leg.
Brooks
(
UKS
)
;
1 male
,
4 females
, Province
Guanacaste
,
Estación Cacao, SW
Volcán Cacao,
1000–1400 m
,
IX-1988
, leg.
R. Blanco
,
C. Chavez
(
INBIO
,
UNAM
)
;
1 female
,
San José
,
Escazu
,
27-XII-1988
, leg.
F. D. Parker
(
UNAM
)
;
1 female
, Province
Puntarenas
,
Estación G.
Brenes, Res. Biol. Monteverde,
1800 m
,
VI-1991
, leg.
E. Bello
(
INBIO
)
;
1 female
,
Province
San José
, S of
Coronado
,
2-IX-1981
, leg.
R. Paniagua
(
INBIO
)
.