Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Bitta affinis (Westwood)
Orig. Comb: Anisoscelis affinis Westwood 1840
Explanation of Names
affinis = 'similar, related'
Identification
Hind tibia expansion huge, as wide and almost as long as the bug's body
Range
s. TX (Cameron & Hidalgo counties) / Mex. to C. Amer. -
Map (Distant, 1880-1893)
(1)Habitat
at least 30 individuals and pairs on the ornamental shrub, Yellow Buttercup (
Turner ulmifolia, Turneraceae) at
Quinta Mazatlan in McAllen, immediately east of the airport on Oct. 2015 per
Lynn MonroeSeason
USNM has 25 specimens from E. Cameron Co., Tex., taken from 13.IV to 28.VI.1946 by George B. Vogt on Passiflora lutea that appear to be A. affinis (Tom Henry, pers. comm. to MAQ, 2009);
TAMUIC has five specimens from the Sabal Palm Sanctuary, Brownsville, TX (27.X.1979, 13-14.X.1988, 24.X.1992, 6.XI.2009, 16.VII.2010)
(3)Life Cycle
asso. w/ Passifloraceae and Turneraceae (BG data)
Remarks
Comes to lights (C. Bordelon, pers. comm., 2009 to MAQ). Sp. not listed in Henry and Froeschner (1988)
(4)
Note,
George B. Vogt (1920-1990) was an entomologist stationed in Brownsville during 1946-47. During this time, George made an extensive collection of Rio Grande Valley beetles and bugs. In 1949, George published 5 papers on s. TX tiger, longhorn and buprestid beetles.
Print References
Brailovsky H., Sanchez C. (1983) Hemiptera-Heteroptera de México XXIX. Revision de la familia Coreidae Leach. Parte 4. Tribu Anisoscelidini Amyot-Serville. An. Inst. Biol. UNAM, 53(1): 219-275.
Distant. W.L. (1880-1893) Biologia Centrali-Americana: Insecta. Rhynchota. Hemiptera-Heteroptera. Volume I
pg. 123,
Tab. 13, Fig. 3
Leavengood, Jr., J., H. Brailovksy & E. Barrera. 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): 241-268. (
Zootaxa)
Packauskas R.J., Schaefer C.W. (2001) Clarification of some taxonomic problems in Anisoscelini and Leptoscelini (Hemiptera: Coreidae: Coreinae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 103(1): 249-256.
Westwood, (1840) Pg. 275. In: W. Jardine. (editor) The naturalist's library: v. 1. Duncan, J. Introduction to entomology. W.H. Lizars, Edinburgh.
