Catorhintha - Catorhintha mendica

Moved

… Lynette Schimming, 21 November, 2008 - 10:18am

Catorhintha mendica Stal

The left antennal spine looks a bit too truncate and the legs are quite mottled for guttula. Apparently New York is a bit too far north for any other Catorhintha as well. Reference is Brailovsky & Garcia (1987). Requesting a new species page.

… drswanny, 20 November, 2008 - 4:18pm

Thanks for this ID. It's nic

Thanks for this ID. It's nice to know that you can find new and interesting things, even in the wilds of Brooklyn.

… Rich Kelly, 21 November, 2008 - 6:13am

Moved

Moved from Squash Bug.

… Rich Kelly, 29 February, 2008 - 1:19pm

Right genus.

I know there are several species, and except for one, I don't know how to tell them all apart....

… Eric R. Eaton, 5 October, 2007 - 1:30pm

ok, thanks. I'm having troub

ok, thanks. I'm having trouble moving this thing to just the genus.

… Rich Kelly, 5 October, 2007 - 1:39pm

Catorhintha

Try the genus Catorhintha

… texhoma, 6 January, 2008 - 6:06pm

I agree with Catorhintha

I was just looking through some images and saw that this was in the wrong place. It is Catorhintha. We have 2 different species in Central TX and they both have the same look to them - not as wide as Anasa and the head appears broader.

… Valerie G, 27 February, 2008 - 11:41pm

More.....

Thanks for your help. I agree on the genus. I have now tried moving this image twice to just the Genus Catorhintha, and I don't see that anything has actually happened.
I think that the problem may be that a website "administrator" has to create just the genus level slot for the pic to be moved to. I'm not moving it to species level because I don't know that the one in NY is the same as the one in OK, with no records in between. ???

… Rich Kelly, 28 February, 2008 - 11:40am

you should be able

to move the image Rich. Make sure after you've tagged your photo and have navigated to the Catorhintha page that you then click on the Images tab. You should then see a "move tagged images" link. The genus page is already there if there are species. (The genus page is created first, then any species pages under it.)

Let me know if you still need help.

By the way, I agree that this is probably Catorhintha based on different shapes of the two genera ... but I'm not an expert on these bugs.

… Joyce Gross, 28 February, 2008 - 7:01pm

Third time is the charm. See

Third time is the charm. Seems to be correct now. Thanks for your info and encouragement.

… Rich Kelly, 29 February, 2008 - 1:29pm

Thanks for your input. Does

Thanks for your input. Does this species occur in New York? I see the resemblance, but none of my sources show this genus and the BugGuide only has your submission for ID request with multiple photos of the same insect. What did you use to tie this down?
My prior comment was just about my technical inability to tag the thing and move it to the genus Anasa, not down to species. I couldn't get it to work.

… Rich Kelly, 7 January, 2008 - 5:38pm

Look at this link for some information

http://fulltext10.fcla.edu/DLData/UF/UF00000092/file83.pdf

… texhoma, 21 January, 2008 - 7:29am