Anisoscelis (Bitta) gradadius Distant

Brailovsky, Harry, 2016, The genus Anisoscelis Latreille (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae: Anisoscelini): new species, taxonomical arrangements, distributional records and key, Zootaxa 4144 (2), pp. 195-210 : 204

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) .

Figures

FIGURES 7 – 12. Parameres of Anisoscelis (Bitta) spp., in two views. 7 – 8, A. (B.) affinis Westwood. 9 – 10, A. (B.) alipes Guérin-Méneville. 11 – 12, A. (B.) gradadius Distant.

FIGURES 23 – 26. Dorsal view of Anisoscelis (Bitta) spp. 23, A. (B.) alipes Guérin-Méneville (male). 24, A. (B.) gradadius Distant (female). 25, A. (B.) hymenipherus Westwood (male). 26, A. (B.) podalicus Brailovsky & Mayorga (male).