Neotropiconyttus alboannulatus ( Stål, 1855 )

Gamboa, Jean, Gil-Santana, Hélcio R., Gamboa-Tabares, Armando, Martínez-Viuche, Eidy & Serna, Francisco, 2024, A new species of Neotropiconyttus Kirkaldy (Hemiptera, Reduviidae) in a cacao plantation from the Colombian Napo Province, including a key to species, and taxonomic notes of the genus, ZooKeys 1207, pp. 185-204 : 185-204

Neotropiconyttus alboannulatus ( Stål, 1855)

Figs 1–4

Zelus alboannulatus Stål, 1855: 189 [description].

Amaurosphodrus albo-annulatus ; Stål 1867: 297 [description], 1872: 82 [catalog]; Lethierry and Severin 1896: 178 [catalog]; Champion 1899: 283 [citation, comments], tab. XVII, figs 15, 15 a.

Zelus albo-annulatus ; Walker 1873: 136 [catalog].

Neotropiconyttus alboannulatus ; Kirkaldy 1909: 388 [as the type of Amaurosphodrus Stål, 1872 in the new combination]; Wygodzinsky 1949: 42 [catalog]; Maldonado 1990: 241 [catalog]; Maldonado and Lozada 1992: 165 [comparison with other species of the genus based on color characteristics]; Froeschner 1999: 207 [catalog].

Distribution.

Colombia.

Notes.

Neotropiconyttus alboannulatus was described based on (a) female specimen (s) from Colombia ( Stål 1855) (Figs 1–3 ). The female “ Typus ” currently deposited in NHRS is considered a syntype, according to Art. 73.2 of the ICZN (1999). This specimen has a label with the locality “ Remedios ”, written by Stål (1855) as the original information. Therefore, according to Art. 76.1 of the ICZN (1999), “ Remedios ” is considered the type locality of N. alboannulatus . Further, the species was also recorded in Mexico ( Walker 1873) and Panama ( Champion 1899). The latter author observed only females similar to the type specimen.

Morphological remarks.

Length ~ 9.5 mm. The so far recorded specimens are generally blackish with small whitish annuli on median portion of femora, somewhat larger on hind legs, and the anterior ~ 1 / 2 of the ventral surface of the abdomen reddish.

Figures

Figures 1–4. Neotropiconyttus alboannulatus (Stål, 1855), syntype, female, deposited in NHRS, catalog number NHRS - GULI 000000054, photographs provided by Gunvi Lindberg, 2023 of Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet [Swedish Museum of Natural History] and made available by this institution under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License, CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode1dorsal view 2 ventral view 3 lateral view 4 labels.