Vatiga

Taxonomy

Vatiga Drake and Hambleton, 1946

Type species: Vatiga vicosana Drake and Hambleton

Diagnostic characters

Body narrow and elongate, head short, clypeus not surpassing apical half of first antennal segment; antennae shorter than the body, segment I more than 5 times longer than segment II; 2 to 5 cephalic spinescephalic spines:
a spine on the head
present; bucculaebucculae:
an elevated ridge on either side of the first labial segment
closed anteriorly; rostral sulcusrostral sulcus:
shallow furrow on either side of rostrum (labium)
deeply constricted at mesosternum, uninterrupted by a transverse carinacarina:
elevated ridge or keel
; pronotumpronotum:
dorsal sclerite of the first thoracic segment
tricarinate, lateral carinaecarinae:
elevated ridge or keel
extends throughout the pronotumpronotum:
dorsal sclerite of the first thoracic segment
, height of median carinacarina:
elevated ridge or keel
greater than or equal to height of lateral carinae; pronotal hoodhood:
term used to describe the modified anterior area of the pronotum, which is sometimes tectiform and sometimes bulbous, with numerous intermediate conditions.
tectiform, not bulbous; paranotumparanotum:
lateral extension of pronotum; may be carinate, explanate, or reflexed
narrow, with 2 rows of areolaeareolae:
a small enclosed space on a surface, such as an area enclosed by veinlets on wings
, not reflexedreflexed:
bent or curved backwards, as in a reflexed paranotum
, oriented subvertically, spines absent along paranotal margin, anterior margin not projecting anterad; hemelytrahemelytra:
one of the basally thickened forewings of Hemiptera
with claval areaclaval area:
parallel-sided and sharply pointed anal area of hemelytron
weakly developed, almost entirely covered by posterior margin of pronotumpronotum:
dorsal sclerite of the first thoracic segment
; costal areacostal area:
area of the costa delineated by the first longitudinal vein of the wing, usually running along the anterior margin
narrow with 2 rows of areolae; discoidal cell level, short, not reaching the middle of hemelytrahemelytra:
one of the basally thickened forewings of Hemiptera
(Drake and Hambleton 1946aDrake and Hambleton 1946a:
Drake, C. J., and E. J. Hambleton. 1946a. New species and new genera of American Tingidae (Hemiptera). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 59: 9-16., Froeschner 1993Froeschner 1993:
Froeschner, R. C. 1993. The Neotropical lace bugs of the genus Vatiga (Heteroptera: Tingidae), pests of cassava: new synonymies and key to species. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 95: 457-462., Montemayor and Costa 2009Montemayor and Costa 2009:
Montemayor, S. I., and L. A. a. Costa. 2009. Systematic revision of Macrotingis and phylogenetic analysis of the genera Macrotingis and Ceratotingis (Heteroptera: Tingidae). European Journal of Entomology 106: 631-642., Henry et al. 2017Henry et al. 2017:
Henry, T. J., S. I. Montemayor, and A. H. Knudson. 2017. Review of the New World Tigava lace bug complex (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae), with the description of two new genera and two new species and a key to genera. Dugesiana 24: 269-277.).

Distribution

Neotropical (Drake and Ruhoff 1960Drake and Ruhoff 1960:
Drake, C. J., and F. Ruhoff, A. 1960. Lace-bug genera of the world (Hemiptera: Tingidae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum 112., Drake and Ruhoff 1965Drake and Ruhoff 1965:
Drake, C. J., and F. A. Ruhoff. 1965. Lacebugs of the World: A Catalog (Hemiptera: Tingidae) Bulletin of the United States National Museum: 1ndash;634., Guilbert 2019Guilbert 2019:
Guilbert, E. 2019. Lace bugs database - http://www.hemiptera-databases.com/tingidae)

Interceptions at US ports of entry 1984 to 2018

Intercepted species	Shipment origin(s)	Inspected host(s)
Vatiga illudens (Drake)	Domician Republic, Haiti	Cucurbita sp., Xanthosoma sp.

References

Drake and Hambleton 1946aDrake and Hambleton 1946a:
Drake, C. J., and E. J. Hambleton. 1946a. New species and new genera of American Tingidae (Hemiptera). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 59: 9-16., Drake and Ruhoff 1960Drake and Ruhoff 1960:
Drake, C. J., and F. Ruhoff, A. 1960. Lace-bug genera of the world (Hemiptera: Tingidae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum 112., Drake and Ruhoff 1965Drake and Ruhoff 1965:
Drake, C. J., and F. A. Ruhoff. 1965. Lacebugs of the World: A Catalog (Hemiptera: Tingidae) Bulletin of the United States National Museum: 1ndash;634., Froeschner 1993Froeschner 1993:
Froeschner, R. C. 1993. The Neotropical lace bugs of the genus Vatiga (Heteroptera: Tingidae), pests of cassava: new synonymies and key to species. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 95: 457-462., Guilbert 2019Guilbert 2019:
Guilbert, E. 2019. Lace bugs database - http://www.hemiptera-databases.com/tingidae, Henry et al. 2017Henry et al. 2017:
Henry, T. J., S. I. Montemayor, and A. H. Knudson. 2017. Review of the New World Tigava lace bug complex (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae), with the description of two new genera and two new species and a key to genera. Dugesiana 24: 269-277., Montemayor and Costa 2009Montemayor and Costa 2009:
Montemayor, S. I., and L. A. a. Costa. 2009. Systematic revision of Macrotingis and phylogenetic analysis of the genera Macrotingis and Ceratotingis (Heteroptera: Tingidae). European Journal of Entomology 106: 631-642.

Additional images

Vatiga images at the Smithsonian