Baldus vinulus ( Stål, 1865 )

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 : 245-246

Baldus vinulus ( Stål, 1865)

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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 )

Figures

FIGURES 13–18. 13. Baldus vinulus (Stål); 14. Dalmatomammurius cebrenoides (Bl̂te); 15. Diactor bilineatus (Fabricius); 16–17. Holhymenia histrio (Fabricius); 18. Leptoglossus occidentalis Heidemann.

FIGURES 7–12. 7. Bitta affinis (Westwood); 8. B. alipes (Guérin-Méneville); 9. B. gradiada (Distant); 10. B. hymeniphera (Westwood), holotype; 11. B. lurida (Brailovsky), holotype; 12. B. podalica Brailovsky and Mayorga, holotype.