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Dagbertus fasciatus
Photo#208317
Copyright © 2008
Mike Quinn
Dagbertus fasciatus (Reuter) -
Dagbertus fasciatus
Village of San Leanna (south Austin), Travis County, Texas, USA
July 29, 2008
Det. WonGun Kim, 2008
at UV lights in mesic patch...
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Contributed by
Mike Quinn
on 31 July, 2008 - 1:50am
Last updated 23 December, 2021 - 11:40am
Moved
Moved from
Dagbertus semipictus
.
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Mike Quinn
, 16 December, 2008 - 10:33am
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Thanks!!!
I believe your suggestion is most correct and it is *most* appreciated! Thanks again! Mike
PS: I believe you nailed the genus, but D. semipictus might be restricted to FL and the Caribbean. Can you look its range (and that of its congeners) in Henry & Froeschner's Catalog of the Heteroptera?
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Mike Quinn
, 14 December, 2008 - 4:02pm
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It is better to ID this bug as D. fasciatus
Actually, my species suggestion was superficial because i did not reviewed the descriptions of all species due to the lack of material.
Now, i found some materials and felt that the situation was somewhat complicated.
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i) The description of
D. fasciatus
(= Lygus fasciatus) in
Blatchley
.
"Oblong-oval. Dull greenish-yellow, rather thickly clothed with semiprostrate fine yellowish hairs; scutellum reddish, the median line and tip usually paler, sometimes green or yellow with only a few red dots on sides (var.
viridiusculus
Knight); inner half of clavus and inner apical angles of corium reddish-piceous; membrane dusky marbled with paler legs pale yellow, hind femora with apical half reddish, a narrow preapical ring and knees pale, basal fifth of tibiae usually red. Head very broad with eyes large, overlapping front angles of pronotum as in
Dichrooscytus
. Joints 1 and 2 of antennae greenish-yellow, the latter more than three times as long as 1,
its apex blackish
, 3 dusky, paler at base, 4 fuscous, one-half as long as 3. Pronotum and scutellum finely transversely strigose, with minute punctures between the strigae. Elytra finely, densely, evenly punctate."
Blatchley says
D. fasciatus
occurs in eastern NA including TX.
ii) The key for
D. olivaeus
and
D. fasciatus
given by
Leston
5.
Second antennal segment black at the apex
; scutellum mostly unicolorous, with some reddening at the margins and apex;
pronotum without a transverse dark band
; paraclypeus unmarked; male genitalia as Fig. 1 ...
Dagbertus olivaeus
(Reuter)
5',
Second antennal segment unicolorous
; scutellum with a conspicuous brown patterning;
pronotum with a transverse dark band posteriorly
; paraclypeus with a bright red transverse band apically; male genitalia as Fig. 2 ...
Dagbertus fasciatus
(Reuter)
iii) The description of
D. semipicta
given by
Henry
"
Dagbertus semipictus
can be separated from
fasciatus
in the U.S. fauna in having
the 2nd antennal segment slightly longer than the basal width of the pronotum
..., the apex of the tylus fuscous (tylus pale on
fasciatus
), the sides of the thorax and abdoment with a wide, fuscous tripe (
fasciatus
has, at most, fed flecks), and
the base of the pronotum with a wide, transverse, brown to fuscous band
."
iv) The description of
D. irroratus
given by
Henry
"The overall pale brown coloration flecked with numerous scattered plaer spots (...) on the dorsum and ventral surface, the pale brwon antennal segments with segment III very short, and the somewhat reddish tibiae with large white spots will distinguish
irroratus
from all other species now in
Dagbertus
."
***********
The above information strongly suggests that this bug is
D. fasciatus
.
The Blatchley's description of
D. fasciatus
is almost the same as this bug except for the antenna and the post-prontal fuscous band. But, it includes both
D. olivaeus
and
D. fasciatus
, and Leston extracted
D. olivaeus
having fuscous antennae. Then, the post-prontal fuscous band becomes one of the features that separates two species. Finally, Henry added
Bolteria semipictus
and
Lygocoris irroratus
to the genus
Dagbertus
. The post-prontal fuscous band is shown in
D. semipictus
as well as in
D. fasciatus
.
Although other distinguishing features cannot be checked by this photo, your bug must be
D. fasciatus
in consideration of its distribution.
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WonGun Kim
, 16 December, 2008 - 4:23am
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What do you think about my suggestion?
^^
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WonGun Kim
, 14 December, 2008 - 2:07pm
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It looks like a Dagbertus species..
and may be
Dagbertus semipictus
.
Please refer to the description of
Bolteria semipicta
of Blatchley
(=
Dagbertus semipictus
), and a figure of a
Dagbertus
species (
Dagbertus suspectus
) in
Carvalho
.
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WonGun Kim
, 29 November, 2008 - 8:08am
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