Bagrada (Bagrada) hilaris
Creators: name: Nicolas, Vincent
name: Carapezza, Attilio
name: Rider, David A.
name: Kment, Petr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Bagrada
Bagrada hilaris

description: Bagrada (Bagrada) hilaris (Burmeister, 1835)
(Fig. 26)
= Cimex pictus Fabricius, 1775 (junior primary homonym of Cimex pictus Drury, 1770, Coreidae; synonymised by Horváth 1909: 631)
= Cimex hebraicus Germar, 1838 (synonymised by Dallas 1851: 259)
= Bagrada cruciferarum Kirkaldy, 1909 (new substitute name for C. pictus Fabricius, 1775)
= Bagrada (Bagrada) picta var. connectens Horváth, 1936 (synonymised by Rider 2006: 360)
= Bagrada (Bagrada) picta var. modesta Horváth, 1936 (synonymised by Rider 2006: 360)
Material examined. MAYOTTE: Coconi, 12.834829°S, 45.136545°E, 103 m a.s.l., 10.v.2023, 1♂, T. Ramage lgt., P. Kment det. (TRCF); Longoni, 16.x.2023, 1♂, 1♀, V. Nicolas lgt. & det.; Chirongui, 17.x.2023, photo, V. Nicolas lgt. & det.; Mzouazia, 17.x.2023, photo, V. Nicolas lgt. & det. (VNBF).— NAMIBIA: Katima Mulilo, 4.–6.ii.1997, 1♂, 1♀, M. Just lgt., P. Kment det. (NMPC).
Biology. Bagrada hilaris, the Painted bug (or Bagrada bug), prefers plants of the Brassicaceae. It is a serious pest of some vegetables or oilseed crops (e.g., cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, Chinese cabbage, Indian mustard, rape, canola) (e.g., Azim & Shafee 1986, Bundy et al. 2018b, Salini 2020). It is also common on Capparis (Capparaceae), often damaging leaves (Linnavuori 1993, Carapezza 1995). In Mayotte it has been highly abundant on Cleome viscosa (Cleomaceae) in grassy wasteland of coastal areas of Mayotte (V. Nicolas, pers. observ.). All three of the above families are closely related within the plant order Brassicales. It has also been recorded on numerous plants from other families (Bundy et al. 2018b, Salini 2020). In Yemen it was reported on Salsola (Amaranthaceae) and Zygophyllum (Zygophyllaceae) (Linnavuori & van Harten 1997), these may be incidental associations. Both larvae and adults are aposematic and often aggregate on host plants throughout the growing season (Reed et al. 2013); the immatures were described by Azim & Shafee (1986). It is multivoltine and favours warm and dry conditions, and may be active throughout a year. For a detailed review of its biology see Bundy et al. (2018b).
Distribution. Comoros: Mayotte (new record), Madagascar (Cachan 1952, as B. picta), Réunion (Vayssières et al. 2001). Africa: Algeria (Wagner 1958, as B. picta; Derjanschi & Péricart 2005), Angola (Anonymus 1981), Botswana (Walker 1867, Hesse 1935; Krüger & Deckert 2016, as B. picta), Burkina Faso (Anonymus 1981), Cape Verde Islands (Lindberg 1959, as B. picta), Chad (Bergevin 1936), Democratic Republic of the Congo (Distant 1901, Schouteden 1909, Mayné & Ghesquière 1934), Egypt (Priesner & Alfieri 1953, as B. picta), Eritrea (Schouteden 1905a, as B. picta), Ethiopia (Horváth 1936, Mancini 1956, both as B. picta), Kenya (China 1937, as B. picta), Libya (Eckerlein & Wagner 1970, as B. picta), Malawi (Distant 1898), Morocco (Vidal 1937, as B. picta; Derjanschi & Péricart 2005), Mozambique (Horváth 1936, as B. picta var. connectens and B. picta var. hilaris), Namibia (Horváth 1936, as Africa merid. occ., no exact locality, as B. picta var. connectens and B. picta var. hilaris; this paper), Senegal (Anonymus 1981), Somalia (Mancini 1939, as B. picta), South Africa (Germar 1838, as B. hebraica; Distant 1898; Horváth 1936, as B. picta var. connectens and B. picta var. hilaris), Sudan (Linnavuori 1975), Tanzania (Horváth 1936, as B. picta, B. picta var. connectens and B. picta var. hilaris), Uganda (Le Pelley 1959, no exact record, as B. cruciferarum), Zambia (Evans 1952, no exact record), Zimbabwe (Evans 1952, no exact record). Europe: Italy (Pantelleria) (Carapezza 1981, 1995), Malta (Rieger 1986), North Macedonia (Protić 1987). Asia: Afghanistan (Hoberlandt 1961, as B. picta; Hoberlandt 1997), Bangladesh (Ahmad et al. 1974), China (Shaanxi, Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan) (Hsiao et al. 1977, as B. picta; Hua 2000; Rider et al. 2002), Egypt (Sinai) (Gadalla 1999), India (Distant 1902, as B. picta; Horváth 1936, both as B. picta and B. picta var. modesta; Salini & Viraktamath 2015), Iran (Horváth 1936, Hoberlandt 1955, both as B. picta; Hoberlandt 1997; Linnavuori 2004; Ghahari et al. 2014), Iraq (Horváth 1936, as B. picta; Linnavuori 1993), Israel (Hoberlandt 1952, Linnavuori 1960, both as B. picta), Myanmar (Anonymus 1981), Nepal (Horváth 1936, as B. picta), Pakistan (Ahmad et al. 1974, Ahmad & Kamaluddin 1981), Saudi Arabia (Horváth 1936, as B. picta var. hilaris; Linnavuori 1986), Sri Lanka (Distant 1902, Breddin 1909, both as B. picta), Syria (Linnavuori 1964, B. picta; Derjanschi & Péricart 2005), Thailand (Roca-Cusachs & Jung 2019, no exact record), Yemen (Linnavuori 1989, Linnavuori & van Harten 1997). Introduced to North America: Mexico (Sánchez-Peña 2014, Torres-Acosta & Sánchez-Peña 2016, Hernández-Chávez et al. 2018), United States (Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah) (Palumbo & Natwick 2010, Bundy et al. 2012, Lambert & Dudley 2014, Rider & Swanson 2019). South America: Argentina (Mendoza) (Carpintero et al. 2021), Chile (Faúndez et al. 2016). Oceania: Hawaii (Matsunaga et al. 2019).
description: Published as part of Nicolas, Vincent, Carapezza, Attilio, Rider, David A. & Kment, Petr, 2024, New records, diagnostics and preliminary checklist of the superfamily Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from the Comoro Islands, pp. 1-29 in Zootaxa 5481 (1) on pages 15-16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5481.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/12742608