Repipta unispina Martin-Park & Coscaron, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Martin-Park, Abdiel
name: Delfín-González, Hugo
name: Coscarón, María Del Carmen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Reduviidae
Repipta
Repipta unispina

description: Repipta unispina Martin-Park & Coscarón, sp. nov.
Figs 4, 7, 11–13, Map 5
Description. — General coloration dark brown and light brown. Head: light brown laterally beginning in anteocular region and ending in postocular region, dark brown dorsally, behind antennifer spines to neck (including clypeus); antennifer spines brown; eyes not surpassing margins of head; antenna I and II brown; rostrum I light brown dorsally and ventrally, dark brown laterally; II and III dark brown. Pronotum: anterior lobe, anterolateral angles, and collar brown, with an “H” light brown coloration pattern (Fig. 4 B); submedian carina from anterior margin of posterior lobe to less than half length of posterior lobe; posterior lobe, humeral spines, discal spines and posterior margin light brown, with an inverted “V” brown coloration pattern beginning in anterior margin and reaching each humeral and discal spines. Scutellum: principal body light brown; posterior process pale, short, acuminate and flat. Pleura: light brown; prosterna brown. Legs: coxae and trochanters light brown; fore femora light brown with a brown narrow band pattern close to apex; hind femora light brown except apically, this dark brown; fore tibiae light brown with a narrow brown band pattern near base and brown apically; hind tibiae brown with a light brown band pattern near center; tarsus brown. Abdomen: connexival segments: light brown; segment VI armed with a short brown spine at their outer apical angles; urosternites light brown except laterally with an irregular brown band pattern in segments III–IV near connexivum (Fig. 7 D). Macropterous form: dark brown. Hemelytra: corium and clavus dark brown; hemelytron 1.04 mm longer than abdomen; membrane hyaline-brownish. Female genitalia: posterior view: as in (Fig. 11 N). Gonocoxite VIII: sparse thin hairs (Fig. 12 N), anterior fibula slightly curved (Fig. 12 N). Gonapophysis VIII: without hairs (Fig. 12 N). Gonocoxite IX: ventrally with sparse thin hairs, wide basally (Fig. 13 N).
Distribution: Brazil.
Material examined. HOLOTYPE, 1 Ƥ Brazil: Amazonas: Río Cauaburi, [3°10'N – 67°16'W], 16/I/1963, C. Lindenmann leg., (ZSM).
Measurements. As in Table 20.
Remarks. It superficially resembles R. flavicans, R. brailovskyi sp. nov., and R. sexdens, but can be distinguished by the light brown “H” shaped pattern on the anterior lobe of pronotum, connexival segment VI armed with a spine, and genitalia traits.
Etymology. Named for its unique spine in connexival segment VI.
Female (Holotype) N=1 Max Total length 11.2 Head length 1.92 Head width 1.16 Anteocular region 0.52 Postocular region 0.40 Interocular region 0.52 Interocellar region 0.28 Pronotum length 2.16 Pronotum width 2.28 Scutellum length 0.57 Scutellum width 0.57 Scutellum posterior process length 0.30 Abdomen width 2.68 Eye length 0.48 Eye width 0.32 Eye height 0.60 Antennal segment 1 4.48 Antennal segment 2 1.40 Antennal segment 3 -
Antennal segment 4 -
Rostral segment 1 1.04 Rostral segment 2 0.88 Rostral segment 3 0.36 Head spines length 0.88 Posterior lobe of pronotum discal spines length 1.12 Posterior lobe of pronotum humeral spines length 0.88 Distance between head spines 1.04 Distance between discal spines 1.44 Distance between discal/humeral spines 1.60
description: Published as part of 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, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 3501 on pages 48-49, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.213795