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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Racelda spurca (
Stal
, 1860)
Figs 58-62
Material examined.
Brazil
,
Sao
Paulo State
:
RACELDA
/
Racelda spurca
(
Stael
[handwritten] /
J.C.M. Carvalho.
det. 1991 [printed; except two latter numbers, which were handwritten] // [handwritten label]:
20.XI.1955
/
Barueri
/
K. Lenko
leg.,
1 male
(MNRJ).
Racelda spurca
was described based on an unspecified number of male specimens from
Rio de Janeiro
,
Brazil
.
Stal
(1860
,
1872
) cited "Mus. Holm." (NHRS) as the depository of the type specimen(s).
Currently
, there is only
one type
specimen of
R. spurca
deposited there (
G. Lindberg
pers. comm.) (
Figs
58-60
). The possibility that the species was described based on more than
one specimen
cannot be excluded and, following
Art.
73.2 and the
Recommendation
73F of the ICZN, this specimen is therefore considered as a
syntype
.
Some characteristics of a non-type male specimen examined here (Figs
61
,
62
) are noteworthy, such as the presence of pale veins on the coria of hemelytra (Fig.
61
) and the longitudinal sulcus of the pronotum, which is clearly interrupted at the level of transverse sulcus (Fig.
62
) and not continuous along the two lobes.