Revision of genus Repipta Stål 1859 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae) with new species and distribution data
Author
Martin-Park, Abdiel
Author
Delfín-González, Hugo
Author
Coscarón, María Del Carmen
text
Zootaxa
2012
3501
1
54
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.213795
3fe7b113-c219-4a34-8305-91cea92bb76a
1175-5326
213795
A1555675-3A47-46FA-9DAB-4B5DBDE365B8
Repipta nigrospinosa
Martin-Park & Coscarón
,
sp. nov.
Figs 3
,
6
,
8–10
,
16
, Map 4
Description.
—
General coloration dark brown and brown. Head: dark brown, almost black; eyes not surpassing margins; antenna I and II dark brown; III and IV light brown, III thickened and reducing gradually toward apex in males; rostrum I dark brown basally and beyond medially, and light brown apically; II dark brown basally without reaching centre, and light brown apically; intersegmental line I and II light brown; III dark brown. Pronotum: dark brown, almost black; submedian carina from anterior margin of posterior lobe to less than half length of posterior lobe. Scutellum: principal body dark brown; posterior process dark brown or yellowish in some specimens, short, acuminate and flat. Pleura: dark brown, almost black; pro-, meso-, and metasterna dark brown, almost black. Legs: coxae and trochanters dark brown, almost black; fore femora dark brown, mid-, and hind femora brown, hind femora with a yellowish band pattern basally; fore tibiae dark brown with two yellowish band patterns: basally and medially; mid- and hind tibiae variable in coloration pattern: first variety, brown with a yellowish band basally; second variety, brown with two yellowish or light brown bands, basally and medially in some specimens; third variety, brown with three bands, basally, medially and apically (this broader, reaching less than half of tibiae); tarsus brown basally and dark brown toward apex or entire dark brown in some specimens. Abdomen: connexival segments: yellowish; segments III–VI armed with a short dark brown or yellowish spines at their outer apical angles, being spine VI longer than basal spines (
Fig. 16
E); urosternites brown except superior margin to connexivum, this red or light brown in some specimens. Macropterous form: brown. Hemelytra: corium and clavus brown; hemelytron
0.12–0.28 mm
, as long as abdomen or slightly shorter; membrane hyaline-brownish. Male genitalia: pygophore: subquadrangular, longer than wide, median process developed, rounded-acute (
Fig. 8
H), parameres: short, curved (
Fig. 9
H). Phallus: articulatory apparatus medium long, quadrangular and narrow, basal plates bridge short and thin, pedicel wide (
Fig. 10
H).
Distribution
:
Ecuador
,
Peru
.
Material examined
.
HOLOTYPE
, 1 3
Ecuador
:
Napo
, [
0°44'S
–
78°06'W
],
07/III/1983
, L. Huggert leg.
PARATYPES
, 1 3
Peru
:
Satipo
, [
11°15'S
–
74°38'W
],
24/I/1984
, L. Huggert leg., (
MZLU
); 1 3
Huánuco
, [
9º55'S
–
76º13'W
],
17/VI/2003
, T. Kothe leg; 2 3
Huánuco
: Panagua, Río Llullapichis, [
3°52'S
–
73°13'W
],
06/10/ 2000
,
17/IV/2003
, T. Kothe, G. Riedel leg., (
ZSM
).
Measurements
. As in
Table 14
.
TABLE 14
. Selected measurements (mm.) of
Repipta nigrospinosa
Martin-Park & Coscarón
,
sp. nov
.
Male (Holotype)
N=1
|
Male N=3 |
Max |
Min Max |
Total length |
8.10 |
7.50 8.30 |
Head length |
1.50 |
1.35 1.50 |
Head width |
1.00 |
0.90 1.00 |
Anteocular region |
0.40 |
0.40 0.40 |
Postocular region |
0.45 |
0.45 0.55 |
Interocular region |
0.50 |
0.45 0.50 |
Interocellar region |
0.40 |
0.35 0.45 |
Pronotum length |
1.75 |
1.65 1.75 |
Pronotum width |
1.65 |
1.45 1.60 |
Scutellum length |
0.30 |
0.30 0.42 |
Scutellum width |
0.40 |
0.40 0.47 |
Scutellum posterior process length |
0.22 |
0.20 0.27 |
Abdomen width |
1.32 |
1.32 1.44 |
Eye length |
0.48 |
0.44 0.48 |
Eye width |
0.28 |
0.24 0.36 |
Eye height |
0.48 |
0.48 0.56 |
Antennal segment 1 |
3.64 |
3.64 4.16 |
Antennal segment 2 |
1.00 |
0.84 1.00 |
Antennal segment 3 |
- |
4.04 4.68 |
Antennal segment 4 |
- |
- 1.80 |
Rostral segment 1 |
0.88 |
0.88 0.96 |
Rostral segment 2 |
0.64 |
0.64 0.72 |
Rostral segment 3 |
0.32 |
0.28 0.32 |
Head spines length |
0.80 |
0.68 0.88 |
Posterior lobe of pronotum discal spines length |
0.96 |
0.88 0.96 |
Posterior lobe of pronotum humeral spines length |
0.56 |
0.40 0.56 |
Distance between head spines |
0.68 |
0.68 1.04 |
Distance between discal spines Distance between discal/humeral spines |
1.20 1.48 |
0.80 1.08 1.16 1.48 |
FIGURE 6.
Lateral aspect (A–D, F–L). A–B,
R. fuscipes
Stål
, male (left) and female (right), C,
R. hondurensis
sp. nov.
, D,
R. lepidula
Stål. Ventral
aspect. E,
R. mucosa
Champion, F
,
R. nigronotata
Stål, G
,
R. nigrospinosa
sp. nov.
, H,
R. obscuripes
Stål, I
,
R. paraguayensis
sp. nov.
, J,
R. ruficorpus
sp. nov.
, K,
R. schaeferi
sp. nov.
, L,
R. sexdens
(Fabricius)
. Arrows refer to character under descriptions/redescriptions.
Remarks
. It superficially resembles
R. lepidula
,
R. mucosa
,
and
R. spinosa
but can be differentiated from
R. spinosa
and
R. mucosa
by connexivum armed with short spines in segments III–VI; and from
R. lepidula
by the lateral band pattern of the abdomen.
Etymology
. Named for general dark brown to black body coloration and connexival spines in segments III–VI.