Repipta Stål

Martin-Park, Abdiel, Delfín-González, Hugo & Coscarón, María Del Carmen, 2012, Revision of genus Repipta Stål 1859 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae) with new species and distribution data, Zootaxa 3501, pp. 1-54 : 2

Repipta Stål

Repipta Stål, 1859:366 , 369 [descr.]; Maldonado, 1990:269 [cat.].

Type of genus: Zelus taurus ( Fabricius), 1803 :291. By subsequent designation, Van Duzee, 1916:31.

Redescription.—Head about nearly length of pronotum; two spines on antennifer curved outward or straight, and from short to long; gena spine absent or rarely present with an acute projection; with interocular suture; each single ocelli on a tubercle; without head granulations; head generally covered with abundant short and long hairs; first rostral segment 0.28–0.30 mm longer than second; without rostrum rugosities or granulations, all rostrum segments with reduced hairs; antennae long and slender covered with short and long hairs; segment III generally thickened in males. Pronotum wider than long, subpentagonal; anterior lobe of pronotum unspined and generally covered by short and long hairs; anterolateral angles of anterior lobe of pronotum protuberant; longitudinal sulcus faint anteriorly, deep posteriorly, reaching posterior lobe; posterior lobe of pronotum armed with four variable length spines, two placed on disc and two on humeral angles; discal spines (in dorsal or lateral view) located higher and slightly further back than humeral spines; posterior margin of posterior lobe of pronotum carinated; submedian carina pattern of posterior lobe of pronotum poorly or well-developed, sometimes densely covered with short pilosity; granulations present on posterior lobe of pronotum and covered with pilosity, short hairs or both. Pleura generally covered with pilosity, abundant short and long hairs or both. Prosterna usually covered with abundant short hairs; mesosterna and metasterna generally covered with short and long hairs. Scutellum horizontal, higher than postscutellum; posterior process ending in a horizontal spine, in a few cases acute or rounded and acuminate or almost flat in lateral view; scutellum generally covered with short and long hairs. Legs moderately long; without spines; femora generally covered with abundant short erect hairs ventrally and abundant short and long erect hairs dorsally; apices of femora slightly incurved with 1 + 1 short blunt lateral projections; fore femora in dorsal view basally and apex incrassate; tibiae generally with abundant short and long erect hairs; fore tibiae straight, with a small preapical spur and with a small apical pad of setae. Hemelytra as long as abdomen or surpassing abdominal apex, covered with abundant short hairs. Abdomen widening posteriorly or, in a few cases narrow, covered with sparse or abundant short and long hairs; connexival segments usually unarmed or, in some species, armed with short spines at II–VI or III–VI or IV–VI or only VI. Male genitalia: pygophore globose or subquadrangular longer than wide with short or long hairs distally, median process generally subquadrangular or acute, median lateral process semicircular or acute or absent; parameres usually short or long, thick or thin, curved or straight, with short or long hairs distally and externally; phallus: articulatory apparatus generally subquadrangular, basal plate bridge short or long and thin or wide, pedicel thin or wide. Female genitalia: gonocoxite VIII with sparse or abundant thin hairs or thick hairs, anterior fibula generally curved, widened basally; gonapophysis VIII generally with abundant thin hairs ventrally, or without hairs, distal margin generally widened; gonocoxite IX generally with abundant thin hairs ventrally and wide basally.