Species Anisoscelis affinis - Flag-footed Bug

Hind tibia expansion huge, as wide and almost as long as the bug's body

s. TX (Cameron & Hidalgo counties) / Mex. to C. Amer. (BG data),,(Distant, 1880-1893),

at least 30 individuals and pairs on the ornamental shrub, Yellow Buttercup (, Turneraceae) at Quinta Mazatlan in McAllen, immediately east of the airport on Oct. 2015 per Lynn Monroe

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)

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);

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.

Comes to lights (C. Bordelon, pers. comm., 2009 to MAQ). Sp. not listed in Henry and Froeschner (1988)

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.



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.