Pyrrhosphodrus amazonus Stål, 1866

Lapischies, Rita, Forero, Dimitri, Barcellos, Aline & Salomão, Renato P., 2019, A new species of Pyrrhosphodrus (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) from the Caatinga ecosystem in Brazil, with notes on the genus, Zootaxa 4543 (3), pp. 388-400 : 396-397

Pyrrhosphodrus amazonus Stål, 1866

Pyrrhosphodrus amazonus Stål (1866: 298) (new species); Stål (1872: 87) (diagnosis, new variety, distribution); Wygodzinsky (1949: 44) (checklist); Putshkov & Putshkov (1988: 154) (catalog); Maldonado Capriles (1990: 269) (catalog).

Material studied: 1 ♀ COLOMBIA, Meta, San Martin, San Francisco, Hacienda Tocancipá , 330 m, 20/IV/2005 ,

Romero et al. leg. MPUJ_ENT 0 0 11151 (MPUJ). Photo of a female syntype of P. amazonus , housed at NHRS, collection number 0 358.

Distribution. Pyrrhosphodrus amazonus was described from Northern Brazil ( Stål, 1866) and subsequently recorded from Colombia (Stål, 1872).

Discussion. Similarly to the situation with P. militaris (see above), P. amazonus and P. geraesensis share a common color pattern. We did not have access to the type specimen of P. geraesensis , however, based on the original description, it seems very similar to P. amazonus except by the characters mentioned in the key. Fallou (1887) ambiguously described leg coloration, leaving for interpretation the pattern of black annuli present on all the femora; thus we interpreted the description as indicated below in the key. Further examination of the type specimen of P. geraesensis might help decide if these two species really are synonyms.