Saica apicalis Osborn & Drake, 1915

María C. Melo, Gimena Dellapé, Leonela Olivera, Pablo S. Varela, Sara I. Montemayor & Pablo M. Dellapé, 2017, Diversity of true bugs from Iguazú National Park, Argentina, Check List 13 (5), pp. 479-511 : 485

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.15560/13.5.479
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4606144
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scientific name	Saica apicalis Osborn & Drake, 1915
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Saica apicalis Osborn & Drake, 1915 View in CoL

( Fig. 15 View Figure 14–17 )

Distribution. Argentina: Corrientes; Bolivia, Brazil, French Guiana, Guatemala and Panama ( Gil-Santana 2008).

Material examined. 1♀, Misiones, P.N. Iguazú, X-1980, PNI0110 ( MACN).

Remarks. First record for Misiones province.

This species can be distinguished by the general red coloration of the body and the hemelytra with three completely closed discal cells ( McAtee and Malloch 1923). The specimen we examine fits with the specific diagnosis given by McAtee and Malloch (1923) where the posterior pronotal spines are short and acute.

References

Gil-Santana HR (2008) New records, and nomenclatural and biological notes on Reduviidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Bolivia and Brazil. Zootaxa 1785: 43 - 53.

McAtee WL, Malloch JR (1923) Notes on American Bactrodinae and Saicinae. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 16 (3): 247 - 254.

Osborn H, Drake CJ (1915) Records of Guatemalan Hemiptera - Het- eroptera with description of new species. Ohio Naturalist 15: 529 - 541.

Figures

Figure 14–17. Reduviidae. 14. Zelurus stillatipennis (Stål, 1859). 15. Saica apicalis Osborn & Drake, 1915. 16. Ctenotrachelus macilentus Stål, 1872, new country record. 17. Ocrioessa cornutulus (Berg, 1879).