Taxonomic revision of Montina (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) from Colombia with description of three new species
Author
Mejía-Soto, Andrés
Grupo de Entomología Universidad de Antioquia (GEUA), Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia; e-mails: andres. mejias 300 @ gmail. com, martha. wolff @ udea. edu. co
Author
Forero, Dimitri
Laboratorio de Entomología, UNESIS, Departamento de Biología, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia; and Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia (present address); e-mail: iforerof @ unal. edu. co
Author
Wolff, Marta
Grupo de Entomología Universidad de Antioquia (GEUA), Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia; e-mails: andres. mejias 300 @ gmail. com, martha. wolff @ udea. edu. co
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Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
2022
2022-12-16
62
2
325
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http://dx.doi.org/10.37520/aemnp.2022.019
journal article
10.37520/aemnp.2022.019
1804-6487
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Montina fenestrata
(
Stål, 1867
)
(
Fig. 32
)
Aristippus fenestratus
Stål, 1867: 299
(new species).
Montina
(
Aristippus
)
fenestrata
:
STÂL (1872)
: 74
(checklist, new generic placement,
Aristippus
as subgenus).
Ploeogaster fenestratus
:
WALKER (1873)
: 94
(new generic placement).
Montina fenestrata
:
LETHIERRY & SEVERIN (1896)
: 195
(catalog); MALDONADO (1990): 234 (catalog).
Type
locality
. “Brasilia borealis” [= Northern
Brazil
].
Type material.
HOLOTYPE
. [
BRAZIL
]:
1 ♀
, “
Amazon
” / “Stevens” / “
fenestratus
Stål
” / (red label) 382 “82” / (red label) Typus /
NHRS-GULI 000000607
(
NHRS
).
Diagnosis.
General coloration dark grey to dark reddish brown, with head and legs light reddish-brown, membrane pale-yellow with a very conspicuous medial oval hyaline spot (
Fig. 32B
); elevation of the carina of the posterior pronotal lobe very low (
Fig. 32A
); connexivum margin nearly straight.
Differential diagnosis.
Montina fenestrata
is similar in coloration to
M. fumosa
and
M. tikuna
sp. nov.
Nonetheless,
M. fenestrata
can be distinguished by the hyaline spot in the membrane, which is absent in both species, and the very low elevation of the carina of the posterior pronotal lobe (
Fig. 32A
), which is prominent in both
M. fumosa
(
Fig. 11E
) and
M. tikuna
sp. nov.
(
Fig. 23C
). Since we have only examined images of the female
holotype
, we do not know if there is any sexual dimorphism.
Distribution.
Only known from
Brazil
(
LEPELETIER & SERVILLE 1825
,
MALDONADO 1990
).
Remark on type.
STÂL (1867)
indicated that he examined a single female from northern
Brazil
(“Brasilia borealis”). The
holotype
deposited at NHRS bears a label “Amazon”, thus being congruent with Stål’s indication.