Anisoscelis (Bitta) podalicus (Brailovsky & Mayorga)

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 : 207-208

Anisoscelis (Bitta) podalicus (Brailovsky & Mayorga)

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Bitta podalica Brailovsky & Mayorga, 1995: 198 –199.

Diagnosis. Dorsally pale yellowish orange with following areas yellow: calli, posterolateral and posterior margin of pronotum, lateral margins and longitudinal stripe running across scutellar disk, claval, corial veins and costal and apical margins of corium; antennal segment I dark brown with inner face dark yellow, II–III black and IV dark castaneous with apex pale; hemelytral membrane bronze; outer margin of connexivum pale yellowish orange, inner margin pale brown with irregular yellow spots; dorsal abdominal segments pale brown with irregular yellowish orange marks. Labial segments pale yellow (apex of segment IV brown); coxae pale yellow; trochanters pale yellow with two diffuse dark brown longitudinal stripes; femora and fore and middle tibiae pale yellow with two complete dark brown longitudinal stripes; inner face of hind tibiae dark reddish brown with posterior margin black and basal joint and wide medial transverse stripe pale yellow; outer dilatation dark reddish with proximal and distal third, and medial stripe yellow with or without red spots; tarsi pale yellowish castaneous; labium reaching anterior third of abdominal sternite III; humeral angles with tiny subacute spine directed backward.

Distribution. Costa Rica: Provincia Guanacaste: La Pacifica (close to Cañas) and Parque Nacional Guanacaste (Agua Buena) ( Brailovsky and Mayorga 1995).

Type material examined. Holotype, male, Costa Rica, Provincia Guanacaste, La Pacifica, nr., Cañas , 12-VIII-1977, leg. L. E. Gilbert ( UNAM).

Figures

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).