Species info
Classification > Superfamily Miroidea > Family Tingidae > Subfamily Tinginae > Tribe Tingini > Genus Tigava
Tigava bombacis Drake & Poor 1938
Tigava bombacis Drake & Poor, female, paratype [USNM], dorsal view.
<i>Tigava bombacis</i> Drake & Poor, female, paratype [USNM], dorsal view.
Tigava bombacis Drake & Poor, female, paratype [USNM], dorsal view.
<i>Tigava bombacis</i> Drake & Poor, female, paratype [USNM], lateral view.
Tigava bombacis Drake & Poor, female, paratype [USNM], lateral view.
<i>Tigava bombacis</i> Drake & Poor, male, paratype [USNM], dorsal view.
Tigava bombacis Drake & Poor, male, paratype [USNM], dorsal view.
<i>Tigava bombacis</i> Drake & Poor, male, paratipo [USNM], lateral view.
Tigava bombacis Drake & Poor, male, paratipo [USNM], lateral view.
 
Geographic distribution
Distribution
No economic damages registered
  • Argentina
    • Salta
Other distribution
Brazil
 
Synonyms
  • Tigava convexicollis (not Champion): Drake & Hambleton, 1935
Observations
The New World Tigava Lace Bug Complex is currently constituted by nine genera that share simple morphologies, when compared with other lace bugs, a scarcely ornate appearance, with flat, elongate bodies and long, slender antennae with the antennal segment I remarkably long. Tigava bombacis has been recorded for the first time for the Salta province by Kormilev (1955). Henry et al. (2017) provide a key to recognize the genus Tigava from other genera of the Tigava complex and present a characterization of the genus.
Host plants
Bombax sp.; Chorisia sp.; Chorisia speciosa.
References
  • HENRY, T.J., S.I. MONTEMAYOR & 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(2): 269-277.
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