Repipta obscuripes 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 : 33

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.213795
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6179622
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scientific name	Repipta obscuripes Stål
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Repipta obscuripes Stål View in CoL

Figs 3 View FIGURE 3 , 6 View FIGURE 6 , 11–13 View FIGURE 11 View FIGURE 12 View FIGURE 13 , Map 4

Zelus obscuripes Stål, 1860:77 [descr.], Brazil.

Repipta obscuripes View in CoL ; Stål, 1862b:61 [cit.]; Lethierry & Severin, 1896:181 [cat.]; Wygodzinsky, 1949:45 [cat.]; Maldonado, 1990:270 [cat.].

Redescription. — General coloration red and dark brown. Head: red; eyes not surpassing margins of head; rostrum I red with a yellowish ventral line; II red basally and brown distally; III brown; II and III with a ventral brown line. Pronotum: red except anterolateral angles and collar, these red pigmented with light brown; submedian carina reaching less than half length of posterior lobe; posterior lobe spines dark brown. Scutellum: red; posterior process medium long, acuminate and flat. Pleura: red; pro-, meso-, and metasterna red. Legs: coxae and trochanters red pigmented with yellow; femora dark brown; tibiae dark brown; tarsus brown. Abdomen: connexival segments: red; unarmed; urosternites red pigmented with brown ventrally, intersegmental lines lighter. Macropterous form: red. Hemelytra: corium and clavus; membrane hyaline-brownish. Female genitalia: posterior view: as in ( Fig. 11 View FIGURE 11 J). Gonocoxite VIII: sparse thin hairs ( Fig. 12 View FIGURE 12 J), anterior fibula slightly curved, wide basally ( Fig. 12 View FIGURE 12 J). Gonapophysis VIII: without hairs ( Fig. 12 View FIGURE 12 J). Gonocoxite IX: distally with sparse thin hairs and ventrally with abundant thin and thick hairs, slightly wide basally ( Fig. 13 View FIGURE 13 J).

Distribution: Brazil.

Material examined. Brazil: 1 Ƥ [14°01'S – 50°58'W], J. Maldonado det., ( FMNH).

Measurements. As in Table 15.

Remarks. This species resembles R. coccinea but can be differentiated by the dark brown color of the mid-, and hind femora, dark brown discal and humeral spines, a narrower abdomen, and genitalia traits.