Leptoglossus stigma ( Herbst, 1784 )

Leavengood, John M., Brailovksy, Harry & Barrera, Ernesto, 2024, Studies in the New World tribe Anisoscelini Laporte, 1832 (Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae): updated distributions, nomenclatural changes, and keys to the genera of the tribe and the species of Anisoscelis Latreille, 1829 and Bitta Osuna, 1984, Zootaxa 5415 (2), pp. 241-268 : 251

Leptoglossus stigma ( Herbst, 1784)

Distribution. Known from Argentina, Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela (Distant 1881, Bl̂te 1936, Packauskas 2010, Coscarón & Pall 2015, Brailovsky & van der Heyden 2019, Cazorla 2021). Bolivia, French Guiana and Peru are new country records.

Material Examined. New Records. Bolivia: V-50 ( NMNH, 3) ; French Guiana: IV, St. Jean ( NMNH, 1) ; Peru: Satipo , 26-III-1941, P. Paprzycki ( NMNH, 1), Huanuco Dept.: Tambillo Chico Canyon, 13 km S Tingo Maria, 2800', 11–17-IV-1987, J. E. Eger ( TAMU, 2) .

Remarks. Brailovsky & Sánchez (1983) included the south of the United States as part of the distribution following Hussey (1956). However, Hussey’s Florida record was most likely a misidentified L. concolor ( Allen 1969) , as was the suspicion of Gibson (1917) regarding specimens collected north of Mexico in the NMNH. At the time, Allen (1969) suggested that L. stigma occurred east of the Andes in northern South America. The known distribution has vastly expanded, reaching as far north as San Luis Potosi and the southern extreme of Tamaulipas in Tampico, Mexico ( Brailovsky & Sánchez 1983).