Baldus vinulus (Stål, 1865)

(Fig. 13)

Distribution. Known from Brazil (Packauskas 2010). Mattei & Mattei (2017) reported this species from Amazonas, Venezuela, which was formally published in Cazorla (2021). Baine & Brailovsky (2019) reported it from Madre de Dios, Peru. Ecuador is a new country record.

Material examined. New records. Ecuador: Orellana, Parque Nacional Yasuni, 250 m, 1°08’28”N, 76°00’49”W, 20–30-VI-2000, I. Tapia (PUCE, 1); Peru: Avispas, IX– X-1962, L. E. Peña (NMNH, 1) .

Bitta Osuna, 1984, stat. resurr.

Remarks. The rank of the genus Bitta Osuna, 1984 is reinstated. Packauskas & Schaefer (2001) placed Bitta as a synonym of Anisoscelis, recognizing three species groups, one of which included all the former Bitta species and no others. Brailovsky (2016) accordingly treated Bitta as a subgenus of Anisoscelis and described an additional species in the subgenus Bitta . The reinstatement of the genus is based on Brailovsky (2016), and the diagnoses presented for the two subgenera Anisoscelis (Anisoscelis) and Anisoscelis (Bitta) now serve as diagnoses for the two respective genera.

The following new or restored combinations are proposed:

Bitta affinis (Westwood, 1840), comb. reins. (Fig. 7)

Bitta alipes (Guérin-Méneville, 1833), comb. reins. (Fig. 8)

Bitta gradadia (Distant, 1881), comb. reins. (Fig. 9)

Bitta hymeniphera (Westwood, 1840), comb. reins. (Fig. 10)

Bitta lurida (Brailovsky, 2016), comb. nov. (Fig. 11)

Bitta podalica Brailovsky & Mayorga, 1995, comb. resurr. (Fig. 12)