Parapirates cachani Villiers, 1959

Krüger, Andreas, 2019, Notes on Afrotropical Enicocephalidae and Reduviidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) with emphasis on vehicle-mounted net samples from Liberia, West Africa, Zootaxa 4688 (2), pp. 232-248 : 240

Parapirates cachani Villiers, 1959

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Material examined: LIBERIA: Bong county, Liberia Research Unit (Bong Mine) , 6°48′37″N 10°21′23″W, 150 m, 23.vi.1989, at light, leg. Rolf Garms (1 ♂).

Distribution: New for Liberia. Ivory Coast.

Remark: Since its description this is the first new record, with the first images of male genitalia. An apical hook on the right paramere (less so on the left) and a very long and almost straight pygophore’s apical spine with a small basoventral tooth are very characteristic.

Figures

FIGURE 4. Reduviidae. A, Nagusta sp. near carayoni; B, N. gracilis; C, Oncocephalus subspinosus; D, O. zumpti; E, Peirates maurus; F, Peirates sp., lateral view of pygophore, and parameres; G, Peprius nodulipes; H, Petalocheirus rubiginosus, protibia, head and thorax; I, Pisilus tipuliformis; J, Platychiria murrayi, protibia and dorsal habitus; K, P. ugandensis, protibia and dorsal habitus; L, Parapirates cachani, dorsal habitus, pygophore spine, right and left parameres in lateral views. Scale bars of habitus pictures: A–E, G, I–L, 5 mm.