Repipta annulipes Barber

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 : 3-5

Repipta annulipes Barber

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Repipta annulipes Barber, 1925:250 [descr.], Galapagos Is., Indefatigable; Wygodzinsky, 1949:45 [cat.]; Maldonado, 1990:269 [cat.].

Redescription.—General coloration light brown and brown. Head: brown except antenniferous tubercles, clypeus and antennifer spines, these light brown; eyes not surpassing margins of head; antenna I and II light brown, III and IV brown, III slightly increased; rostrum I–III light brown or pale, reduced hairs. Pronotum: anterior lobe and collar light brown dorsally with two brown circular spots on either side of longitudinal sulcus, laterally brown; anterolateral angles brown; posterior lobe brown. Scutellum: principal body light brown; posterior process pale, short and acuminate. Pleura: light brown; propleura with a brown broad band; mesopleura with two brown subparallel bands reaching anteriorly; single band on metapleura. Legs: femurs light brown; fore-, mid-, and hind femora with two brown bands, one beyond middle and two apically ( Fig. 1 A); tibiae with two bands, at base and medially, apices brown, abundant short and long hairs. Abdomen: connexival segments: light brown; unarmed; urosternites II–V with a broad dark brown, almost black, longitudinal band placed near lateral margin with an oblique pale depression. Macropterous form: brown. Hemelytra: corium and clavus brown; hemelytron longer than abdomen; membrane hyaline.

Distribution: Ecuador.

Material examined. HOLOTYPE, 1 3 Ecuador: Galapagos: Indefatigable Island, [0°48'S – 90°58'W], 1925, Barber det., ( AMNH).

Remarks. Images provided by Type Specimens Database of (AMNH).Available from: http://research.amnh.org/ iz/ types _db/images/ Repipta _ annulipes .jpg. No visible traits were taken from original description ( Barber, 1925). It superficially resembles R. flavicans but can be differentiated by the lack of inverted “V” coloration pattern on posterior lobe of pronotum.

MAP 1. Distribution of R. annulipes , R. antica , R. argentinensis sp. nov., R. ayelenae sp. nov., and R. brailovskyi sp. nov.

Figures

FIGURE 1. General aspect. A, R. annulipes Barber, B – C, R. argentinensis sp. nov., male (left) and female (right), D, R. antica Stål, E, R. ayelenae sp. nov., F, R. brailovskyi sp. nov., G, R. brasiliensis sp. nov., H, R. coccinea (Herrich-Schaeffer), I, R. costarrisensis sp. nov. Arrows refer to character under descriptions / redescriptions. Scale 1 mm.