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
11755326
171458
Opisthacidius picturatus
Lent & Wygodzinsky, 1956
This species was previously known only from
Venezuela
(Aragua) (
Lent & Wygodzinsky 1956
). Because females were hitherto unknown, the most remarkable aspects of the female as compared with the male are here described. The female specimen examined is very similar to the male, but bigger. Total length:
27 mm
; maximum width at pronotum:
7 mm
; maximum width at abdomen: 7.5 mm. The coloration of the neck was not mentioned in the original description for the male specimens but in this female, the neck has a central black stripe, and 1+1 lateral orange ones. The pronotum has a similar color pattern as in the male, but with the 1+1 “U” shaped markings connected to the longitudinal central one (
Fig. 39
). The lateral margins of the scutellum are orange, rather than dark. The pleura are dark red instead of orange as in male. The pro and mesopleura lack this dark red color posteriorly. The dark spot of the inner part of the corium is continued as a line to the wing base. The ventral abdominal carina barely extends to segment VI. The specimen listed below is a new record from
Colombia
.
FIGURES 52–60
. Dorsal and lateral views of
Reduviidae
species. 52,
Rasahus costaricensis
, late instar nymph; 53,
Rasahus rufiventris
; 54,
Microlestria laevis
; 55,
Opisthacidius mexicanus
; 56,
Volesus nigripennis
, dorsal view; 57,
V. nigripennis
, lateral view; 58,
Kodormus bruneosus
; 59,
Ocrioessa lobuliventris
; 60,
Microvescia
costalimai
, dorsal view. Scale bar: 1 mm (52, 54, 60); 3 mm (53); 4 mm (5559).
Material examined:
COLOMBIA
, 1Ψ,
Valle del Cauca,
Bajo Calima (bosque),
70 m
,
XII1960
, L. Gallego [
MEFLG
].