Notocyrtus costai Gil-Santana & Forero, 2009

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 : 392

Notocyrtus costai Gil-Santana & Forero, 2009

( Figs. 29–33 )

Notocyrtus costai was described based on a single female from Suriname, currently deposited in MZUSP ( Figs. 29–31 ). The female examined here ( Fig. 32–33 ) seems very similar to the holotype, although some small differences in color are recorded: in the postocular portion of the head the large transverse blackish marking is continuous in the specimen from French Guiana ( Fig. 33 ) and it is interrupted at middle in the female holotype, forming a pair of “large spots in dorsal portion of postocular area” ( Gil-Santana & Forero 2009); in the pronotum, the transverse yellow stripe (Gil-Santana & Forero’s “transverse fascia”), between anterior and posterior lobes is somewhat narrower ( Fig. 32 ), and the hind margin of third lobe completely blackish ( Fig. 32 ) (pale yellow in the holotype, Figs. 29–30 ). Additionally, Gil-Santana & Forero (2009) recorded the total length of the female holotype 11.0 / 13.0 mm, while the female from French Guiana measured 9.5 / 12.5 mm to the tip of abdomen and hemelytra, respectively.

Distribution. French Guiana (new record), Suriname.

Type material examined. Notocyrtus costai Gil-Santana & Forero, 2009 . Holotype: ♀, [ SURINAME]: [printed:] Notocyrtus / costai / Gil-Santana & Forero, 2009 // Langaman Kondre, / Marowijne dist. / Suriname, VIII - 1965 / B. Malkin col. [leg.] // [printed red label bordered with black lines:] HOLOTIPO [holotype] ( MZUSP).

Non-type material examined. FRENCH GUIANA, Bélizon , xi.1997, leg. H. Gaspard, 1 female ( MNRJ) .

Figures

FIGURES 27–34. 27–28, dorsal view, scale bar 5.0 mm, 27, Heza sericans Stål, 1859, female, 28, Isocondylus elongatus (Lepeletier & Serville, 1825), male; 29–33, Notocyrtus costai Gil-Santana & Forero, 2009; 29–31, female holotype deposited in MZUSP, 29–30, scale bar 2.0 mm, 29, dorsal view, 30, lateral view, 31, labels and right hind leg glued to a card pinned with the specimen; 32–33, female from French Guiana, dorsal view, 32, scale bar 5.0 mm, 33, head, scale bar 1.0 mm; 34, Notocyrtus depressus Stål, 1872, female, dorsal view, scale bar 5.0 mm.