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species Thasus neocalifornicus Brailovsky & Barrera, 1994

• Common name(s):  Giant Mesquite Bug
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• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Ecological relationships:
  • Herbivore/Host Plant: Prosopis velutina, Velvet Mesquite show more
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (22):
  • Uhler. 1875. Rep. U.S. Geol. Geog. Expl. Surv. 5:831 >> Note: Loc. USA, rec. Mexico. >> Pachylis gigas misapplied name    urn:lsid:Coreoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:453289
  • Uhler. 1876. Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. 1:295   >> Note: Description of adult and nymph, notes, habits, feeds on shrubs, loc. USA, rec. Mexico. >> Pachylis gigas misapplied name
  • Glover. 1876. Manuscript notes from my journal or illustration of insects, native and foreign. Orden Hemiptera. Subordern Heteroptera or plant bugs 56, plate 7 fig. 23, plate 8 fig. 36 >> Note: Figures of habitus d.v. of adult and nymph, loc. USA. >> Thasus gigas misapplied name    urn:lsid:Coreoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:453290
  • Uhler. 1877. In Wheeler, G.M. Annual Report upon the Geographical Surveys (West of the One-hundredth Meridian) of the Chief Engineer for 1877. Appendix MN 1325 >> Note: Synonymy, loc. USA. >> Pachylis gigas misapplied name
  • Distant. 1881. In Godman & Salvin [Ed.]. Biologia Centrali-Americana 1:108, plate 10 figs 18, 19   >> Note: Listed, citations, variation, figures of adult female and male habitus d.v., locs USA, rec. Mexico. >> Thasus gigas misapplied name
  • Uhler. 1886. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. 10   >> Note: Catalogued, loc. USA. >> Pachylis gigas misapplied name
  • Uhler. 1894. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 2(4):232-233 >> Note: Locs Mexico, host plant: Cactaceae. >> Pachylis gigas misapplied name
  • Van Duzee. 1917. University of California Publications. Technical Bulletins. 2:92-93   >> Note: Distribution (New Mexico, Arizona, Mexico) >> Thasus gigas misapplied name
  • Van Duzee. 1923. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 4 12(11):132   >> Note: Biology (host plant); Distribution (Mexico); >> Thasus gigas misapplied name
  • Torre-Bueno. 1940. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. 35:102 >> Thasus gigas misapplied name
  • Torre-Bueno. 1940. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. 35:45 >> Thasus acutangulus misapplied name    urn:lsid:Coreoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:453291
  • Torre-Bueno. 1941. Entomologica Americana New Series 21(2):54 >> Thasus acutangulus misapplied name
  • Torre-Bueno. 1942. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. 37:184 >> Thasus gigas misapplied name
  • Torre-Bueno. 1945. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. 40:83 >> Note: Misidentification; Biology (host plant); Distribution (Arizona); >> Thasus acutangulus misapplied name
  • O'Shea. 1980. Stud.Neotrop.Fauna Environ. 15:213, 219, figs 30, 31   >> Note: Figures of paramere, aedeagus, listed, Mexico, Arizona, New Mexico. >> Thasus gigas misapplied name
  • O'Shea. 1980. Stud.Neotrop.Fauna Environ. 15:218, 219   >> Note: Designated as type species of Thasus, listed, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, SW USA. >> Thasus acutangula misapplied name
  • Froeschner. 1988. In Henry, T.J. & Froeschner. Catalog of the Heteroptera or True bugs of Canada and the Continental United States 89 >> Note: Catalogued (=T. acutangulus sensu Torre-Bueno, 1940), USA, Mexico. >> Thasus gigas misapplied name
  • Brailovsky & Barrera. 1994. In Brailovsky, C. W. Schaefer, Barrera & Packauskas. A revision of the genus Thasus (Hemiptera: Coreidae: Coreinae: Nematopodini). J. New York Entom. Soc. 102(3):319, 320-322, 324, 325, 327, 333-336   >> Note: Original description, variation, in key to species of Thasus, figures of adult habitus d.v., antenna, spermatheca [figs 6, 13, 27, 33], biology: on Prosopis velutina, eggs laid in chains, nymphs gregarious, relationships. HT: male, Mexico, Baja California Sur, km 75.5 carr. La Paz – San Jose del Cabo, 11.IX.1977, leg. R. Lopez; IBUNAM Mexico City. PTS: locs Mexico, locs USA. >> Thasus neocalifornicus    urn:lsid:Coreoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:453288
  • Schaefer, C. W. & Packauskas. 1998[1997]. J. New York Entom. Soc. 105:207-213, figs 3-5   >> Note: Locs Mexico, USA, in key to fifth-instar nymphs of Thasus acutangulus, gigas, neocalifornicus and genus Pachylis, biometrics of nymphs, variation between populations, figures of adult pronotum d.v. (three specimens), relationships. >> Thasus neocalifornicus
  • Forbes & C. W. Schaefer. 2003. J. New York Entom. Soc. 111(4):235   >> Thasus neocalifornicus
  • Prudic, Noge & Becerra. 2008. Journal of Chemical Ecology 34:734-741 >> Note: Biology (Defensive Secretions, Host Plant); >> Thasus neocalifornicus
  • Packauskas. 2010. Fort Hays Studies 5:189 >> Note: Catalogued (=gigas auctt, acutangulus auctt), Mexico, USA. >> Thasus neocalifornicus
• Scrutiny:
  • Dolling, 2012, Brailovsky et al. (1994) listed citations of misidentifications under gigas and acutangulus; all records from the USA were referred to their new species, Thasus neocalifornicus.
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Northern America, Mexico, Mexico Northwest, Baja California Sur, km 75.5 carr. La Paz-San Jose del Cabo
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Specimen category:  Male
  • Location of type:  UNAM Mexico

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