New records of Reduviidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Paraguay, and Peru
Author
Gil-Santana, Hélcio R.
Author
Husemann, Martin
text
Revista Chilena de Entomología
2023
Rev. Chil. Entomol.
2023-06-30
49
2
395
412
http://dx.doi.org/10.35249/rche.49.2.23.23
journal article
10.35249/rche.49.2.23.23
0718-8994
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Notocyrtus gibbus
(Fabricius, 1803)
(
Figs. 17-19
)
Material examined.
Notocyrtus gibbus
.
COSTA RICA
.
1 male
: [handwritten torn label:] Costa Rica / Farm Hamburg a. Reventazon / bei S. Jose...1924 [?] / F. Nevermann leg. [white framed printed label:] ZMH 849006;
1 female
: [printed pale brownish label:] Farm Hamburg am / Reventazón. /
12-30 km
v. Atlantik / [handwritten]: 14.10. [printed:] 1926 // [printed pale green label:] F. Nevermann leg. / Eng. Nr. 99.192 6 [white framed printed label:] ZMH 849007 [
ZMH
].
Notocyrtus
Burmeister, 1835
currently includes 24 valid species, all of which considered as mimetic of meliponine bees (
Haviland 1931
;
Jackson 1973
;
Gil-Santana 2008
). Subsequent papers with descriptions of species or other information posterior to the revisions of
Carvalho and Costa (1992
,
1993
) of the genus, were listed by Gil-Santana (2022).
Notocyrtus gibbus
(Fabricius, 1803)
had already been recorded from Bolivia, Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana and Paraguay (
Stål 1872
;
Lethierry and Severin 1896
;
Haviland 1931
;
Carvalho and Costa 1993
;
Gil-Santana 2008
). The male (
Figs. 17-18
) and the female (
Fig. 19
) from Costa Rica agree well with the redescription provided by
Carvalho and Costa (1993)
, except by the sternites. While in the examined specimens the sternites are completely pale (
Fig. 18
),
Carvalho and Costa (1993)
described the abdomen as black with the posterior portion of segments II to IV pale. We consider this as a color variation of the species, as commonly recorded in other species of
Harpactorinae
(
e.g
., Gil-Santana 2022), including
Notocyrtus
spp.
, in which the variation in color was hypothesized as being a result of mimicking different meliponine bees in different localities (
Jackson 1973
).
Figures 15-19. 15-16.
Myocoris nugax
Stål, 1872
from French Guiana, female. Scales: 5.0 mm.
15.
Dorsal view.
16.
Ventral view.
17-19.
Notocyrtus gibbus
(Fabricius, 1803)
from Costa Rica.
17-18.
Male. Scales: 3.0 mm.
17.
Dorsal view.
18.
Thorax and abdomen, ventral view.
19.
Female, head, lateral view. Scale: 1.0 mm. /
Myocoris nugax
Stål, 1872
de Guayana Francesa, hembra. Escalas: 5,0 mm.
15.
Vista dorsal.
16.
Vista ventral.
17-19.
Notocyrtus gibbus
(Fabricius, 1803)
de Costa Rica.
17-18.
Macho. Escalas: 3,0 mm.
17.
Vista dorsal.
18.
Tórax y abdomen, vista ventral.
19.
Hembra, cabeza, vista lateral. Escala: 1,0 mm.
Distribution.
Bolivia
,
Brazil
,
Costa Rica
(
new record
), French Guiana,
Guyana
,
Paraguay
.