Repipta brasiliensis 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 brasiliensis

description: Repipta brasiliensis Martin-Park & Coscarón, sp. nov.
Figs 1, 5, 8–10, Map 2
Description. — General coloration brown and light brown. Head: brown; eyes surpassing inferior margin of head; antenna I–III light brown; rostrum I brown; II light brown; III dark brown. Pronotum: anterior lobe brown; submedian carina beginning in middle of anterior lobe and ending less than half length of posterior lobe; posterior lobe brown with a light brown broad longitudinal middle band pattern from collar to posterior margin. Scutellum: light brown; posterior process short, acuminate, and flat. Pleura: brown; pro-, meso-, and metasterna brown. Legs: coxae and trochanters brown; femora light brown; fore tibiae light brown, apically darker; mid-, and hind tibiae light brown; tarsus light brown basally and brown toward apex. Abdomen: connexival segments: brown; unarmed; urosternites brown not homogeneously pigmented with light brown. Macropterous form: brown. Hemelytra: corium and clavus brown; hemelytron 1.08 mm longer than abdomen; membrane hyaline-brownish. Male genitalia: pygophore: globose, longer than wide, median process developed, quadrangular (Fig. 8 D), parameres: short, slightly curved, brown medially to distally with few short hairs ventrally (Fig. 9 D). Phallus: articulatory apparatus short, square, basal plates bridge short and thin, pedicel thin (Fig. 10 D).
Distribution: Brazil.
Material examined. HOLOTYPE, 1 3 Brazil: Santa Catarina: Nova Teutonia, [27°03'S – 52°24'W], 27/II/ 1945, J.M. Bérenger det. as Repipta sp. PARATYPE, 1 3 Santa Catarina: Nova Teutonia, [27°03'S – 52°24'W], 18/IV/1954, J.M. Bérenger det. as Repipta sp., (ZSM).
Measurements. As in Table 5.
Remarks. It superficially resembles R. flavicans and R. schaeferi sp. nov., but can be distinguished by the lack of inverted “V” coloration pattern on posterior lobe of pronotum (vs. R. flavicans) and spines on antennifer not curved (vs. R. flavicans and R. schaeferi).
Etymology. Named to indicate its distribution in Brazil.
Zelus coccineus Herrich-Schäffer, 1853:120 [descr.], Brazil.
Repipta coccinea; Stål, 1872:80 [cit.]; Lethierry & Severin, 1896:180 [cat.]; Wygodzinsky, 1949:45 [cat.]; Maldonado, 1990:269 [cat.].
Redescription. — General coloration red and brown. Head: red or brown in some specimens except labrum and anteclypeus, these dark brown; gena brown; eyes not surpassing margins of head; antenna I and II brown; rostrum I red except intersegmental line, this brown or brown pigmented with red in some specimens; II brown or red basally and brown distally in some specimens; III brown, all with a ventral longitudinal brown line. Pronotum: anterior lobe red or brown in some specimens; anterolateral angles red or dark brown in some specimens; collar dark brown; submedian carina reaching less than half length of posterior lobe; posterior lobe red or red pigmented with brown in some specimens; discal and humeral spines yellowish. Scutellum: red or brown pigmented with red in some specimens; posterior process brown, short, acuminate and rounded. Pleura: red or red pigmented with light brown in some specimens; pro-, meso-, and metasterna red pigmented with brown or red in some specimens. Legs: coxae and trochanters red or brown pigmented with red in some specimens; femora brown; fore femur dark brown apically in some specimens; tibiae brown, in some specimens red or brown basally and light brown apically; tarsus brown. Abdomen: connexival segments: brown pigmented with red; unarmed; urosternites light brown pigmented with red or urosternite VII dark brown in some specimens. Macropterous form: red. Hemelytra: corium red, clavus brown; hemelytron 2.64 mm longer than abdomen; membrane hyaline-brownish. Female genitalia: Posterior view: as in (Fig. 11 D). Gonocoxite VIII: sparse thick hairs, anterior fibula curved, widened throughout (Fig. 12 D) Gonapophysis VIII: ventrally with few thin hairs (Fig. 12 D). Gonocoxite IX: ventrally with abundant thin hairs, wide basally (Fig. 13 D).
Distribution: Brazil, Colombia.
Material examined. Brazil: 1 Ƥ [14°01'S – 50°58'W], J.C. Elkins det; Colombia: 2 Ƥ Bogotá, [4°35'N – 74°04'W], J.C. Elkins det., (SMNH).
Measurements. As in Table 6.
Remarks. In the first record from Colombia, R. coccinea is very similar to R. obscuripes, but can be differentiated by its brown mid-, and hind femora, yellowish discal and humeral spines, wider abdomen, and genitalia traits.
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 11-14, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.213795