New records, taxonomic notes, and the description of a new species of Harpactorinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) from French Guiana
Author
Gil-Santana, Hélcio R.
text
Zootaxa
2022
2022-03-04
5105
3
381
400
journal article
20338
10.11646/zootaxa.5105.3.3
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1175-5326
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Tribe
Apiomerini
Currently, there are 12 extant genera in
Apiomerini
, seven of which are monotypic, among them
Calliclopius
Stål, 1868
and
Sphodrolestes
Stål, 1867
(
Gil-Santana
et al
. 2002
, 2003, 2015,
Bérenger 2006
). Gil-Santana
et al
. (2003) provided a synopsis of the genera and biology of the group, summarized and updated by
Gil-Santana
et al
. (2015)
who also presented a key to their genera. With the exception of
Apiomerus
Hahn,1831
which has several Neartic species as well, other
Apiomerini
are exclusively Neotropical in distribution (
Froeschner 1988
,
Maldonado 1990
, Gil-Santana
et al
. 2003, 2015,
Bérenger 2006
,
Berniker
et al
. 2011
).
Besides the aposematism, as commented above, several species of different genera of
Apiomerini
join in diverse mimicry systems, in which a general dark body coloration is combined with reddish or pale markings on the midportion of hemelytra (Gil-Santana
et al
. 2003).