First record of Leptoglossus cartagoensis Brailovsky & Barrera, 1998 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae) for Panama

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The first record of the coreid Leptoglossus cartagoensis from Panama is presented.

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First record of Leptoglossus cartagoensis Brailovsky & Barrera, 1998 (Hemiptera:
Heteroptera: Coreidae) for Panama
Primera cita de Leptoglossus cartagoensis Brailovsky & Barrera, 1998 (Hemiptera:
Heteroptera: Coreidae) para Panamá
Torsten van der Heyden1
1Immenweide 83, D-22523 Hamburg, Germany. E-mail: tmvdh@web.de
Abstract.- The rst record of the coreid Leptoglossus cartagoensis from Panama is presented.
Key words: Distribution, faunistics, new record.
Resumen.- Se presenta la primera cita del coreído Leptoglossus cartagoensis de Panamá.
Palabras clave: Distribución, faunística, nuevo registro.
In 1998, two new species within the genus
Leptoglossus Guérin-Méneville, 1831, which
belongs to the tribe Anisoscelini within the
Coreidae, were described by Brailovsky &
Barrera (1998) based on several specimens
of both species collected in Costa Rica: Lep-
toglossus cartagoensis Brailovsky & Bar-
rera, 1998 and Leptoglossus talamancanus
Brailovsky & Barrera, 1998. Very recently, the
rst records of L. talamancanus for Belize and
for Mexico were reported (van der Heyden,
2020). Thus, the distribution of the species,
until then only known from Costa Rica, has
expanded considerably.
So far, L. cartagoensis has only been
known from Costa Rica (Packauskas, 2010).
Now, its presence in Panama can be reported:
On 28.ii.2020, Kai Squires photographed an
Figure 1. Specimen of Leptoglossus cartagoensis Brailovsky & Barrera, 1998, 28.ii.2020, Los Naranjos, Panama.
(Photograph: Kai Squires).

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adult specimen of L. cartagoensis (Fig. 1)
near Los Naranjos outside the town of Bajo
Boquete, located in the country’s westernmost
province of Chiriquí about 60 km from the
border with Costa Rica. The specimen was
found at an altitude of approximately 1,645
m above sea level, about 1.6 km from the
beginning of the Pipeline Trail, just where
the open areas turn into a cloud forest (Kai
Squires, pers. comm.). The photograph of the
specimen was published in the online database
iNaturalist under the pseudonym squiresk
(Squires, 2020).
The specimen in the photograph was
identied using the original description of L.
cartagoensis by Brailovsky & Barrera (1998)
and the illustrated key for the identication of
the species included in the genus Leptoglossus
by Brailovsky (2014). The identication was
conrmed by Harry Brailovsky (pers. comm.).
As L. cartagoensis has not been reported
for Panama in scientic publications yet, the
record reported in this note is the rst one for
this country.
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Kai Squires (Canberra,
Australia) for allowing me to use his photograph
of L. cartagoensis to illustrate this paper and for
additional information about his nding. Spe-
cial thanks to Harry Brailovsky (Mexico City,
Mexico) for helpful information.
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