Revision of genus Repipta Stål 1859 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae) with new species and distribution data
Author
Martin-Park, Abdiel
Author
Delfín-González, Hugo
Author
Coscarón, María Del Carmen
text
Zootaxa
2012
3501
1
54
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.213795
3fe7b113-c219-4a34-8305-91cea92bb76a
1175-5326
213795
A1555675-3A47-46FA-9DAB-4B5DBDE365B8
Key to
Repipta
species in the Americas
1 Connexival segments armed with short spines at the outer apical angles (
Fig. 16
E, F)................................ 2
- Connexival segments unarmed at the outer apical angles....................................................... 8
2 Anterior lobe of pronotum homogeneously pigmented........................................................ 3
- Anterior lobe of pronotum with a coloration pattern.......................................................... 7
3 Connexival spines beginning in segment III; posterior lobe of pronotum homogeneously pigmented.................... 4
- Connexival spines beginning in segment II, III, or IV (if beginning in the segments III and IV, posterior lobe of pronotum with a longitudinal band).................................................................................... 5
4 Submedian carina present (
Fig. 16
B); small species
7.50–8.30 mm
(
Tab. 14
).................................................................................................
R. nigrospinosa
Martin-Park & Coscarón
,
sp. nov.
- Submedian carina absent; medium species
13.80 mm
(
Tab. 8
) (
Figs 2
A,
5I
)...................................................................................................
R. ecuadorensis
Martin-Park & Coscarón
,
sp. nov
.
5 Spines not beginning in segment II, abdominal width bigger than 2.00 mm........................................6
- Spines in II–VI connexival segments, abdominal width less than
2.50 mm
[see description of
Stål (1868)
] (
Figs 4
A, 7A)......................................................................................
R. spinosa
(Fabricius)
6 Spines on IV–VI connexival segments; pronotum bigger than
2.60 mm
(
Tab. 3
) (
Figs 1
E, 5D)..................................................................................................
R. ayelenae
Martin-Park
,
sp. nov.
- Spines on III–VI connexival segments; pronotum width less than
2.35 mm
(
Figs 3
D,
6I
) (
Tab. 16
)...............................................................................
R. paraguayensis
Martin-Park & Coscarón
,
sp. nov.
7 Spines only on segment VI; abdomen with a lateral band on segments III–V (
Figs 4
B, 7B)..........................................................................................
R. unispina
Martin-Park & Coscarón
,
sp. nov.
- Spines on segment II–VI; abdomen with a lateral band on segments I–IX (
Figs 3
G, 6L)............
R. sexdens
(Fabricius)
8 Urosternites ventrally with an intersegmental suture pigmented (
Figs 5
L, 7C)...................................... 9
- Urosternites ventrally without an intersegmental suture pigmented.............................................. 12
9 Posterior lobe of pronotum with a pattern and posterior margin lighter........................................... 10
- Posterior lobe of pronotum without a pattern and homogeneously pigmented (
Figs 2
D, 5L)...........
R. fuscospinosa
Stål
10 Posterior lobe of pronotum with other pattern; membrane hyaline brown......................................... 11
- Posterior lobe of pronotum with an inverted “V” pattern reaching humeral and discal spines (
Fig.
3
I, 15B); membrane hyaline transparent..........................................................................
R. taurus
(Fabricius)
11 Anterolateral angles and collar form an inverted “U” pattern reaching or close to anterior acetabulum (
Fig. 16A
); scutellum with a dark dot in the principal body (
Fig. 2
E, F); legs homogeneously pigmented......................
R. fuscipes
Stål
- Anterolateral angles, collar, and scutellum of one color, legs not homogeneously pigmented (
Fig.
1
I, 5H)...........................................................................
R. costarrisensis
Martin Park & Coscarón
,
sp. nov
.
12 Posterior process of scutellum acute (
Fig. 16
C)............................................................. 13
- Posterior process of scutellum acuminate (
Fig. 16
D)......................................................... 18
13 Submedian carina visible.............................................................................. 14
- Submedian carina not clearly visble...................................................................... 15
14 Submedian carina beginning in the middle of anterior lobe of pronotum and reaching discal spines of posterior lobe of prono- tum (
Fig. 2
G); species more than
13 mm
of length (
Tab. 11
)..........
R. hondurensis
Martin-Park & Coscarón
,
sp. nov.
- Submedian carina beginning in the middle of anterior lobe of pronotum without reaching the middle of posterior lobe of prono- tum (
Fig. 1
F); species less than
12 mm
of length (
Tab. 4
)..............
R. brailovskyi
Martin-Park & Coscarón
,
sp. nov.
15 Hemelytra surpassing ≤
0.68 mm
the abdomen.............................................................. 16
- Hemelytra surpassing
1.70 mm
the abdomen............................................................... 17
16 Posterior lobe of pronotum with a light brown middle narrow longitudinal band; posterior margin of posterior lobe of prono- tum curved; discal spines very short (dentiform) (
Fig. 16
G).....................................
R. nigronotata
Stål
- Posterior lobe of pronotum with two dark brown broad longitudinal irregular bands; posterior margin of posterior lobe of pro- notum straight (
Fig. 3
B); discal spines long [see original description of
Champion (1899)
]...........
R. mucosa
Champion
17 Collar of anterior lobe of pronotum thin (
Fig. 3
F); anterior lobe of pronotum with a light brown longitudinal band (
Fig. 16
H)..............................................................
R. schaeferi
Martin-Park & Coscarón
,
sp. nov.
- Collar of anterior lobe of pronotum thick (
Fig. 1
D); anterior lobe of pronotum homogeneously pigmented......
R. antica
Stål
18 Urosternites laterally with a longitudinal band pattern........................................................ 19
- Urosternites laterally without a band pattern............................................................... 21
19 Segments II–VII with a dark brown longitudinal irregular band; mid-, and hind femora light brown except apically brown; parameres exceeding abdomen (
Fig. 5
B).........................
R. argentinensis
Martin-Park & Coscarón
,
sp. nov.
- Different combination from above; mid-, and hind femora with other coloration pattern; parameres not exceeding abdomen...................................................................................................... 20
20 Segments II–V with a dark brown longitudinal band [see original description of
Barber (1925)
]; mid-, and hind femora light brown with two brown bands beyond the middle and apically (
Fig. 1
A)...........................
R. annulipes
Barber
- Segments II–VIII with a dark brown almost black longitudinal band; mid-, and hind femora brown homogeneously pigmented (
Fig. 6
D)................................................................................
R. lepidula
Stål
21 Species less than
12.3 mm
long (
Tab. 9
)................................................................... 22
- Species more than
12.3 mm
long (
Tab. 6
).................................................................. 23
22 Posterior lobe of pronotum with an inverted “V” pattern or four bands beginning in the anterior margin and reaching each humeral and discal spines (
Figs 2
B, C, 14A–D)....................................
R. flavicans
(Amyot & Serville)
- Posterior lobe of pronotum with a middle longitudinal band across discal spines (
Fig. 1
G)........................................................................................
R. brasiliensis
Martin-Park & Coscarón
,
sp. nov.
23 Antennal segment more than 5.00 mm long (
Tab. 6
); pronotum spines yellowish; posterior margin of posterior lobe red or light red.......................................................................
R. coccinea
(Herrich-Schaeffer)
- Antennal segment I less or equal to 5.00 mm long and different combination from above............................ 24
24 Eyes surpassing inferior margins of head; fore femora red basally and brown apically (
Figs 3
E, 6J)..................................................................................
R. ruficorpus
Martin-Park & Coscarón
,
sp. nov.
- Eyes not surpassing inferior margins; fore femora dark brown (
Figs 3
C, 6H).........................
R. obscuripes
Stål