Ploeogaster gesana Kirkaldy, 1909

Gil-Santana, Hélcio R., 2022, New records, taxonomic notes, and the description of a new species of Harpactorinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) from French Guiana, Zootaxa 5105 (3), pp. 381-400 : 397

Ploeogaster gesana Kirkaldy, 1909

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Ploeogaster gesana was a new specific name given by Kirkaldy (1909) to replace Reduvius geniculatus Lepeletier & Serville, 1825 , which was preoccupied by Reduvius geniculatus Latreille, 1811 (currently, Panstrongylus geniculatus, Triatominae ). In the original description by Lepeletier & Serville (1825), the species was recorded from “Amérique méridionale” [= South America]. Further authors repeated this record (e.g. Amyot & Serville 1843, Stål 1872, Lethierry & Severin 1896; Wygodzinsky 1949 as South America), without providing a more specific location ( Maldonado 1990). The present record of the species from French Guiana therefore represents a new country record ( Fig. 51 ).

Material examined. FRENCH GUIANA, Sinnamary, PK 90, 8.xii.1996, attracted by light, leg. H. Gaspard, 2 males ( MNRJ) .

Figures

FIGURES 43–51. 43–50, Notocyrtus tibanae Costa & Gil-Santana, 2001, male genitalia, scale bar 0.2 mm; 43, phallus, ventral view; 44–48, dorsal view, 44, articulatory apparatus and basal portion of dorsal phallothecal sclerite, 45, dorsal phallothecal sclerite, 46–50, portions of endosoma, 46, basal half, 47, median third, 48–49, distal half, 49–50, lateral view, 50, apical portion, bpa, basal plate arm, bpb, basal plate bridge, bpe, basal plate extension, bpp, basal paired process of endosoma, br, basomedial curved branch of the struts, dps, dorsal phallothecal sclerite, ls, lateral sclerotization, ms, median sclerotization, smp, subapical median process of endosoma, st, struts. 51, Ploeogaster gesana Kirkaldy, 1909, male, dorsal view, scale bar 5.0 mm.