Banasa dimidiata ( Say, 1831a ), 1832

Rider, David A. & Swanson, Daniel R., 2021, A distributional synopsis of the Pentatomidae (Heteroptera) north of Mexico, including new state and provincial records, Zootaxa 5015 (1), pp. 1-69 : 41

Banasa dimidiata ( Say, 1831a)

New state records: Alabama: Baldwin Co.: Gulf Shores St. Pk., 17-V-1985, E. G. Riley & D. A. Rider (1♂ DAR) . Cleburne Co.: Shoal Creek Ford, 6 mi. NNW Edwardsville, 23-VII-1965, J. & L. Donahue, det. J. E. McPherson (1♀ MSUC) . Hale Co.: near Payne Lake , 11 mi. S Duncanville, 22-VII-1965, J. & L. Donahue, det. J. E. McPherson (1♂ MSUC) . Lee Co.: [no specific locality], 22-VI-1981, D. A. Rider (1♂ DAR) , 24-VI-1982, D. A. Rider (1♀ DAR) . Tuscaloosa Co.: University , 1935, A. F. Archer (1♂ UMMZ) . South Carolina: Pickens Co.: Clemson , 1-VII-1959 [additional dates: 13-VII-1958, 20-VII-1958, 29-VIII-1958], R. C. Fox, det. J E. McPherson (2♂♂ 2♀♀ MSUC) . Wyoming: Albany Co.: Rock Creek Trail, 15-VI-2007, W. K. Reeves (1♀ DAR) .

Distribution: Canada: AB, BC, MB, NB ( Brown 1941, Maw et al. 2000, Roch 2020), NS, ON, PE ( Maw et al. 2000, Roch 2020), QC, SK ( Walley 1929). United States: AL, AR, AZ ( Thomas & Yonke 1981, Jones 1993), CA, CO, CT ( Parshley 1917, 1923a; O’Donnell & Schaefer 2012), DC, DE ( Schrader & Hughes-Schrader 1958), FL, GA, IA, ID ( Harris & Shull 1944), IL, IN, KS ( Packauskas 2012), LA, MA, MD, ME ( Parshley 1914, 1917; Johnson 1927; Phipps 1930; Roch 2020), MI, MN ( Koch et al. 2014), MO, MS ( Lago & Testa 2000), MT ( Van Duzee 1917), NC, ND, NE, NH ( Slosson 1896, Parshly 1917, Roch 2020), NJ, NM, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI ( Parshley 1917), SC, SD ( Parshley 1922, Harris 1937), TN ( Lambdin et al. 2003, Vlach et al. 2010), TX, UT, VA, VT ( Roch 2020), WV, WA, WI, WY. ( Mexico)

Comments: Say (1831a) originally used dimiata as the specific epithet for this species, which was emended to the present form by LeConte (1859). This was probably unjustified, hence the listing of this species as Banasa dimiata in Froeschner (1988), but Hoffman (2005) provided arguments for maintaining the use of Banasa dimidiata for reasons of stability. Thomas & Yonke (1981) characterized the range of this species as “Entire U.S., northern Mexico and southern Canada ”, but they did not give any specific state localities. This species was also recorded from Alabama, Maine, and Minnesota in an unpublished thesis ( Simons 1969).