Anisoscelis (Bitta) affinis Westwood
Creators: name: Brailovsky, Harry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Coreidae
Anisoscelis
Anisoscelis affinis

description: Anisoscelis (Bitta) affinis Westwood
(Figs. 7–8, 22)
Anisoscelis affinis Westwood, 1840: 275
Diagnosis. Head, dorsal abdominal segments pale orange; pronotum pale orange, posterolateral borders and posterior border pale yellow to yellowish orange; scutellum, clavus, corium and connexivum reddish to dark orange; hemelytral membrane dark ambarine; antennal segments I–III dark orange, IV pale orange; labial segments (with exception of apex of IV brown), anterior and posterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme, and legs pale yellow; hind tibiae with inner expansion dark reddish with basal angle and middle third yellow, and outer expansion with two wide dark reddish transversal stripes and three yellow to pale orange transversal stripes; labium almost reaching posterior border of abdominal sternite III; humeral angles subacute, directed backward. Parameres. Figs. 7–8.
Notes. Anisoscelis (B.) affinis Westwood (1840) was described in six lines from Mexico without any specific locality. The short original description described the thorax and hemelytra as entirely fulvous red, with the legs entirely pale ochraceous.
Distribution. Guatemala: Chacoj, Panzos, and Lanquin. Honduras. Mexico: Baja California Sur (San José del Cabo); Campeche (6 miles W of Xpujil); Chiapas (Bonampak, and Tuxtla Gutiérrez); Guerrero (Acapulco); Jalisco (Chamela); Michoacan (Tuxpan); Morelos (Cañón de Lobos); Nayarit (La Yerba); Oaxaca (7.7 miles S of Ejutla); Puebla (Ajenjibre); Quintana Roo (Tulum); San Luis Potosi El Salto and Tamazunchale); Tabasco (Teapa); Veracruz (Atoyac, Tecolapa, San Andres Tuxtla, Presidio, Dos Amates, El Tajin, Nanchital, and Zontecomapan); and Yucatan (Temax) (Distant 1881, 1892, Brailovsky and Sánchez 1983, Packauskas 2010).
Material examined. New records. Belize: 1 male, Stann Creek District, Buck Shells Grove, W Dangriga, 17– 23-VII-2001, leg. D. G. Hall, J. E. Eger (FSCA); 1 female, Cayo District, Belmopan área, 16-VII-2001, leg. D. G. Hall, J. E. Eger (FSCA); 1 male, Stann Creek District, Locust Bank rd., 8-VIII-1976, leg. M. W. Hetz (UATA). Costa Rica: 1 male, 1 female, Prov. Guanacaste, Rafael Lucas Rodriguez, Palo Verde, Ref. Nac. Fauna Silvestre, 10 m, III-1991, leg. D. Acevedo (INBIO). Guatemala: 1 male, SE Lake Atitlan, Santa Barbara, Finca Santa Maria, IX-1996, leg. P. Hubbell (MELN). Mexico: Campeche: 1 male, Escarcega, El Tormento, 18-VI-1989, leg. A. Cadena, L. Cervantes (UNAM); 1 male, km. 178 road Escarcega-Chetumal, 23-VI-1989, leg. A. Cadena, L. Cervantes (UNAM); 1 female, Calakmul, 29-V-2001, L. Cervantes, C. Mayorga (UNAM). Chiapas: 1 male, Villa Flores, El Vergel, 27-V-1998, leg. J. Morales UNAM); 1 female, km. 135, road Palenque-Frontera Corozal, 16 -VIII-2005, leg. A. Ibarra (UNAM). Hidalgo: 1 male, km. 11 road Ixtlahuaca-Calnali, 1500 m, 20°52’64’’N – 98°39’30’’W, 30-VIII-1999, leg. E. Barrera, H. Brailovsky (UNAM). Jalisco: 7 males, 5 females, 4-XII-1976, 3-XII-1977, 7-X-1981, 17-VII-1988, 8-VIII-1988, 13-IX-1988, 24-X-1988, Estación de Biología, Chamela, leg. H. Brailovsky, A. Pescador, E. Ramirez (UNAM). Morelos: 1 male, 1 female, 10 mi E Cuernavaca, 30-VII-1976, leg. Peigler, Schaffner (TAMU). Nayarit: Rio Huayamota, Los Sabinos, 8–11-VII-1991, leg. E. Barrera, R. Barba (UNAM). Oaxaca: 1 male, 1 female, San Mateo Yetla, 27-V-1990, leg. E. Barrera, A. Cadena (UNAM); 1 female, Santo Domingo Petapa (Arroyo Las Palmas), 330 m, 20-III-1990, leg. E. Barrera, A. Cadena (UNAM); 1 hembra, 10 km. E Puerto Escondido, 13-VII-2004, leg. L. Cervantes, A. Delgado, S. Gamez, C. Mayorga, collected on Passiflora sp. (UNAM); 1 male, Huatulco, vic Santa Cruz-La Crucacita, 20–26-VI-1999, leg. J. Smith (UCDC). Puebla: 1 female, Patla. 19-VIII-1994, leg. H. Brailovsky, E. Barrera (UNAM); 1 male, Municipio Heytamalco, Rancho La Carolina, 4 km E, Ayotox, 300 m, IV-1989, W. Lopez-Forment (UNAM). Quintana Roo: 1 male, 1 female, 18 km. S of San Jose de la Montaña, 26-IX-1983, leg. O. Canul (UNAM); 1 male, Chetumal, Municipio Othon P. Blanco, VI-1993, leg. G. Alayon (UNAM). San Luis Potosi: 1 male, El Bonito, 60 m, 27-VI-1982, leg. J. E. Rawlins (CMNH). Tabasco: 1 female, Chontalpa, 22-V-1983, leg. H. Sandoval (UNAM); 1 male, Cardenas, 23-VII-1980, leg. Schaffner (TAMU). Tamaulipas: 2 females, Gomez Farias, 4-X-1985, leg. M. Garcia, L. Cervantes (UNAM); 1 male, road between Ibarra de Canales and Estación Zaragoza, 20-II-2003, leg. A. Torres (UNSAM); 1 male, Tula, km 20 road Tula-Ocampo, Colonia Guadalupe, 446 m, 22°53’13’’N –99°28’34’’W, 12-V-2007, leg. H. Brailovsky, E. Barrera, L. Cervantes (UNAM). Veracruz: 1 female, Puerto de Veracruz, 4-X-2006, leg. A. R. Jimenez (IEXA); 17 males, 14 females, Estación de Biología Tropical Los Tuxtlas, 24-VII-1985, 16-VIII-1985, 10-IX-1985, 22-II-1986, 27-VII-1986, 11-IV-1987, on Passiflora sp., leg. P. Sinaca, L. Cervantes, C. Mayorga, A. Ibarra (UNAM); 3 machos, 1 hembra, Catemaco (Playa Escondida), 13-VI-1979, leg. T. H. Atkinson (UNAM); 1 macho, Fortin de las Flores, 1-VII-1954, leg. F. X. Williams (UNAM); 1 hembra, Coatepec (Anahuac), 1228 m, IV-2013, leg. L. Cervantes (IEXA); 1 female, Cordoba, II-1997, leg. A. Calixto (UNAM); 1 male, Teocelo (Llano Grande), 19-IV-2005, leg. L. Cervantes (IEXA). Nicaragua: 1 female, Matagalpa, Fuente Pura, 10-IV-1994, leg. J. M. Maes, A. de la Fuente (MELN); 1 female, Managua, Ticuantepe Montibelli, 1-XII-2002, leg. J. M. Maes, J. Tellez (MELN); 1 female, Rivas-Tola, Talon de Brito, 10–14-VIII-2006, leg. J. M. Maes (MELN). United States of North America: 1 male, 1 female, Texas, Cameron Co., Sabal Palm Groove Sanct., nr Southmost, 10-X-1981, leg. R. Turnbow (TAMU).
Biological notes. Associated with Passiflora sp. (Brailovsky and Sánchez 1983).
description: Published as part of Brailovsky, Harry, 2016, The genus Anisoscelis Latreille (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae: Anisoscelini): new species, taxonomical arrangements, distributional records and key, pp. 195-210 in Zootaxa 4144 (2) on pages 201-202, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4144.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/272052