Repipta spinosa (Fabricius)

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 : 46

Repipta spinosa (Fabricius)

Figs 4 , 7 , Map 5

Zelus spinosus Fabricius, 1803:290 [descr.], Guyana.

Corcia spinosa: Stål, 1872:80 [cit.]. In error.

Repipta spinosa ; Stål, 1868:102 [descr.]; Wygodzinsky, 1949:45 [cat.]; Maldonado, 1990:270 [cat.].

Redescription. — General coloration brown and dark brown. Head: dark brown except laterally, brown area from behind antennifer spines to ocellar; eyes not surpassing margins of head; antenna I brown, apically darker; II and IV dark brown; III brown basally to medially, and dark brown apically, thickened basally and reduced gradually toward apex; rostrum I dark brown except apically, this brown; II brown except base, this darker; III dark brown. Pronotum: anterior lobe, anterolateral angles and collar dark brown; submedian carina reaching discal spines; posterior lobe brown or dark brown except posterior margin, this brown in some specimens. Scutellum: principal body dark brown; posterior process brown, acute and flat. Pleura: propleura dark brown in anterior margin and brown to posterior margin; mesopleura brown and metapleura brown in anterior margin to middle and light brown to posterior margin. Legs: coxae and trochanters dark brown; femora dark brown or light brown not homogeneously pigmented with brown in some specimens; tibiae brown not homogeneously pigmented with light brown; tarsus dark brown. Abdomen: connexival segments: light brown; segments II–VI armed with short spines at their outer apical angles, being VI slightly longer than basal spines; urosternites dark brown laterally fading to brown toward apex, ventrally brown. Macropterous form: dark brown. Hemelytra: corium and clavus dark brown; hemelytron slightly longer than abdomen; membrane hyaline-brownish.

Distribution: Guyana.

Material examined. TYPE, 2 3 Guyana, [5°48'N – 59°01'W], Fabricius det., ( NHMDO).

Remarks. Images provided by (NHMDO). It superficially resembles R. nigrospinosa sp. nov., R. mucosa , and R. lepidula but can be differentiated by its narrower abdomen and connexival segments II–VI armed with spines at their outer apical angles.

Figures

FIGURE 4. General aspect. A, R. spinosa (Fabricius), B, R. unispina sp. nov. Arrows refer to character under descriptions / redescriptions. Scale 1 mm.

FIGURE 7. Lateral aspect. A, R. spinosa (Fabricius), B – C, R. taurus (Fabricius), male (left) and female (right), F, R. unispina sp. nov. Arrows refer to character under descriptions / redescriptions.