Repipta argentinensis Martin-Park & Coscarón, 2012

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 : 6-7

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.213795
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A1555675-3A47-46FA-9DAB-4B5DBDE365B8
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6179600
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BAAC66-C169-7359-FF6A-7C455A153F88
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Repipta argentinensis Martin-Park & Coscarón
status	sp. nov.

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Repipta argentinensis Martin-Park & Coscarón View in CoL , sp. nov.

Figs 1 View FIGURE 1 , 5 View FIGURE 5 , 8–13 View FIGURE 8 View FIGURE 9 View FIGURE 10 View FIGURE 11 View FIGURE 12 View FIGURE 13 , 16 View FIGURE 16. A , Map 1

Description. — General coloration light brown and brown. Head: light brown except laterally neck brown; anteocular and postocular region, gena, antenniferous tubercles, labium, clypeus and jugum brown or dark brown in some specimens, each ocelli tubercle brown; eyes surpassing inferior margins of head in males; antenna I light brown basally in males, darker apically, light brown basally in females, in middle brown, close to apex light brown and brown apically; II basally to middle light brown, and brown toward apex; III brown, thickened at base and reduced gradually toward apex in males; rostrum I and II light brown or brown in some specimens; III brown or dark brown in some specimens. Pronotum: anterior lobe light brown medially and brown or dark brown laterally; anterolateral angles brown or dark brown; collar light brown; males with two narrow lines of hairs placed next to longitudinal sulcus, beginning in anterior margin and reaching posterior lobe; submedian carina reaching less than half of posterior lobe; posterior lobe light brown with a very narrow brown middle longitudinal line beginning in anterior margin and ending in posterior margin; two brown inverted “V” coloration patterns, each one reaching humeral and discal spines ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 B) (female specimen light brown medially, humeral angles and part of disc dark brown). Scutellum: principal body light brown or yellowish in some specimens; posterior process pale, brown or yellowish in some specimens, acuminate, short and rounded. Pleura: light brown or brown in some specimens with a brown or dark brown irregular broad lateral line covering pro-, meso-, and metapleuron near inferior margin; prosterna brown or dark brown except stridulatory sulcus, this light brown; mesosterna and metasterna brown, light brown or yellowish in some specimens. Legs: coxae light brown with a brown dorsal spot basally; trochanters light brown; femora light brown, apex darker, with four brown lines: two dorsally and two ventrally covering from base to apex; fore tibiae light brown with four brown bands: basally, close to base, medially and apically; tarsus brown. Abdomen: connexival segments: light brown; unarmed; urosternites light brown with an irregular brown broad lateral band pattern near connexivum in segments II–VII. Macropterous form: brown. Hemelytra: corium and clavus light brown; hemelytron in males 1.60 mm longer than abdomen, in female as long as abdomen; membrane hyaline-brownish. Male genitalia: pygophore subquadrangular, slightly longer than wide, median process (mp) developed, short, acute, lateral median process (lmp) rounded, much longer than median process with abundant long hairs ( Fig. 8 View FIGURE 8 A), parameres very long surpassing apex of abdomen ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 B), thick, curved, pigmented with brown externally, abundant long hairs all around parameres beginning in middle and directed distally ( Fig. 9 View FIGURE 9 A). Phallus: articulatory apparatus (aap) long, oval and narrow, basal plate bridge (bpb) short and thin, pedicel (ped) very wide ( Fig. 10 View FIGURE 10 A). Female genitalia: posterior view: as in ( Fig. 11 View FIGURE 11 B). Gonocoxite VIII (gcx8): sparse thin hairs with a brown semicircular spot near external margin ( Fig. 12 View FIGURE 12 B), anterior fibula slightly (af) subquadrangular, widened at base ( Fig. 12 View FIGURE 12 B). Gonapophysis VIII (gnp8): without hairs ( Fig. 12 View FIGURE 12 B). Gonocoxite IX: ventrally with abundant thin hairs, not wide basally ( Fig. 13 View FIGURE 13 B).

Distribution: Argentina.

Material examined. HOLOTYPE, 1 3 Argentina: Córdoba: Cabana, [31°13'S – 64°22'W], 03–06/I/1926. PARATYPES, 5 3 1 Ƥ Córdoba: Cabana, [31°13'S – 64°22'W], 27/XII/1925, 03–06/I/1926; 1 3 Corrientes: Chavarría, [28º57'S – 58º34'W], 25/I/1920; 1 Ƥ Pellegrini, [27°27'S – 58°50'W], 29/IV/2003, M.C. Melo, leg., Coscarón expedition; 1 3 Misiones: Loreto, [27º19'S – 55º31'W], P. Denier det., A. Ogloblin leg., ( MLP).

Remarks. It superficially resembles R. flavicans but can be differentiated by its body length, and genitalia traits.

Measurements. As in Table 2 View TABLE 2 .

Etymology. Named for its distribution in Argentina.