New records of Reduviidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Colombia and other Neotropical countries
Author
Forero, Dimitri
text
Zootaxa
2006
1107
1
47
journal article
50829
10.5281/zenodo.171458
06ab81eb-f8e8-4b77-ad90-758c5ff37337
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Pessoaia limai
Usinger, 1942
The genus
Pessoaia
Costa Lima, 1940
, has five described species (
Maldonado 1990
).
Wygodzinsky (1943)
mention this species from
Cuba
citing
Usinger (1942)
, but the original description only mention specimens from “
Costa Rica
.”
Alayo (1967)
also did not mention
Pessoaia
from
Cuba
. Therefore, without voucher specimens, the Cuban record must be considered an error.
P. l i m a i
is here recorded for the first time from
Guyana
and
Trinidad
.
Drake & Harris (1945)
recorded
P. limai
from “Bonda” in
Colombia
. This locality is in the Magdalena Department,
75 km
east of Santa
Marta
city by road (
IGAC 1996
).
P. l i m a i
was previously recorded from
Costa Rica
and
Colombia
(Maldonado 1995). Additional localities in the Colombian Caribbean coast are given here. Some of the Colombian specimens were found in a tropical dry forest. Since this species has never been figured, an illustration is given now (
Fig. 64
). With these additional distributional data at hand,
P. l i m a i
seems to be restricted to the northern coast of South
America
and part of Central
America
.
Material examined
:
COLOMBIA
; 1ɗ,
Bolívar
, Zambrano, Hda. Monterrey
9º37'48"N
74º54'44"W
(Malaise 6. Bosque Lata, suelo),
70 m
,
29I1994
, F. Fernández [
IAVH
]; 1Ψ,
Bolívar,
Zambrano, Hda. Monterrey
9º45’N
74º49’W
(Malaise aerea 9. Bosque Lata),
10 m
,
22VII1993
, F. Fernández [
IAVH
]; 1ɗ,
Guajira
, Merochón, 5 Km SE Uribía, 11:
14XII1971
, B. Malkin, leg. / at light / “
Pessoaia
sp.” Wygodzinsky det. [
FMNH
].
GUYANA
, 2ΨΨ, Rio Esequibo (Source), J. Ogilvie [
AMNH
].
TRINIDAD
[
AND
TOBAGO
], 1ɗ, Arima Valley,
8001200 ft
, 10:
22II1964
, Rozen & Wygodzinsky [
AMNH
].