A new species of Racelda Signoret, with taxonomical notes and a key to the males of the genus (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Ectrichodiinae, Ectrichodiini)
Author
Gil-Santana, Helcio R.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0544-348X
Laboratorio de Diptera, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Av. Brasil, 4365, 21040 - 360, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
helciogil@uol.com.br
Author
Oliveira, Jader
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2588-1911
Universidade de Sao Paulo, Faculdade de Saude Publica, Laboratorio de Entomologia em Saude Publica, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil & Laboratorio de Parasitologia, Universidade Estadual Paulista " Julio de Mesquita Filho ", Faculdade de Ciencias Farmaceuticas UNESP / FCFAR, Rodovia Araraquara Jau, KM 1, 14801 - 902, Araraquara, SP, Brazil
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1122.84424
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Racelda robusta
Berenger
& Gil-Santana, 2005
Figs 56
, 57
Material examined.
French Guiana
,
Belizon
,
xi.2001
,
H. Gaspard
leg.,
2 males
(MNRJ)
.
Racelda robusta
was described based on a male from
French Guiana
(
Berenger
and Gil-Santana 2005
).
Gil-Santana et al. (2013)
recorded the species from
Brazil
(
Amazonian region
).
They
observed that while the
holotype
had the center of hind lobe of pronotum entirely blackish, the male from
Brazil
had a less extensive blackish coloration, with a pale portion below the transverse sulcus. In the males from
French Guiana
examined here, the area below the tranverse sulcus is also pale to some extent, except at medially (Fig.
56
), suggesting intraspecific rather than geographic variation in the size of this blackish marking
.