Bactrodes spinulosus Stal 1862
Creators: name: Coscarón, Maria Del Carmen
name: Melo, Maria Cecilia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Reduviidae
Bactrodes
Bactrodes spinulosus

description: Bactrodes spinulosus Stål, 1862
Figs. 2: A–L, 4:A.
Bactrodes spinulosus Stål 1862, 23: 442. Saica spinulosa Walker 1873, 8: 128.
Material examined: COLOMBIA: Ψ, Valle, 6mi W Cali (8°36’N 80°8’W), 1630m, 20­III­ 1955, Schlinger & Ross col. (CAS); GUATEMALA: Ψ, Panajachel (14°44’N 91°10’W), 19­VIII­63, Cavagnaro & Irwin col. (CAS); MEXICO: Ψ, Baja California, Cedros Is. (28°10’N 115°15’W), Bersteins Springs, V­ 1922, det. Wygodzinsky, Inst. Med. Reg., Hanna col. (CAS), nymph without head; PANAMA: ɗ, Chiriqui (8°24N 82°19’W), Boquette, R.P., 19­V­1962, H. Ruckes (AMNH); VENEZUELA: ɗ, Monagas, Caripito (10°7’N 63°6’W), 9­VII­37, (CAS).
Description.­ Body length 7.79–9.87 (mean = 8.56). Head length 1.17–1.53 (mean = 1.35), width 0.73–0.83 (mean = 0.77). Head tuberculated, light brown with sparse light brown setae (Fig. 2­A). Antennal length 5.70 (last segment lost). Antennal tubercle with scattered setiferous tubercle at base. Antenna light brown, segment I with tubercle at base, setose. Width of eyes 0.17–0.20 (mean = 0.19), interocular space 0.37–0.43 (mean = 0.40). Gula dark brown. Genae protruded, light brown tinged with yellow. Rostrum length 1.20­ 1.42 (mean = 1.30), ratio of segments' lengths ca. 1: 1.44: 1.16. Rostrum light brown, darker distally and at intersegmental regions, with setae longest ventrally on segment I and shortest dorsally on segments II and III. Neck with setose tubercles. Pronotum length 2.03–2.50 (mean = 2.22), width 1.03–1.37 (mean = 1.20). Anterior lobe light brown with long setose tubercles, brown median sulcus evident. Posterior lobe granulated, light brown. Posterior edge invaginated. Two spines on humeral angles. Sterna setose. Scutellum with two long spines (Fig. 2­B).
Fore legs light brown, femur with setose tubercles, and tarsi brown (Fig. 2­C). Median and hind legs light brown with sparse thin setae. No differences between width of femora and tibia, tibia with more abundant thin setae, tarsi brown. Stridulatory sulcus light brown, with setose tubercles laterally (Fig. 2­D). Hemelytra length 4.56–5.76 (mean = 5.03), color light brown. Abdomen length 2.72–5.70 (mean = 4.57), width 1.20–2.43 (mean = 1.60). Abdomen not visible dorsally, with two posterolateral projections and protruded spiracles (Fig. 2­E). Connexivum light brown. Urotergites light brown, with sparse short setae.
Male: pygophore with granulations and setae, distally with two rounded setose projections (Fig. 2­F). Parameres elongate with long external setae (Fig. 2­G). Base of pygophore median process thick, apical hook rounded (Fig. 2­H). Phallus (Fig. 2­I), articulatory apparatus (Fig. 2­J).
Female: gonocoxite VIII sub rectangular, with abundant setae (Fig. 2­K), laterally expanded, relation between maximal width of gonocoxite and maximal width of gonapophysis 2.5: 1. Gonocoxite IX sub quadrangular with abundant long setae distally (Fig. 2­ L).
Geographic distribution (Fig. 4 ­A): COLOMBIA, GUATEMALA, MEXICO, PAN­ AMA, PUERTO RICO, and VENEZUELA.
Observations: First records for Colombia, Panama, and Venezuela, new locality records for Guatemala and Mexico. This species differs from the others by the conspicuous spinose tegument and the abdomen with two posterolateral projections and protruded spiracles.
description: Published as part of Coscarón, Maria Del Carmen & Melo, Maria Cecilia, 2003, Revision of the subfamily Bactrodinae (Heteroptera, Reduviidae), with a phylogenetic analysis of Bactrodes, pp. 1-15 in Zootaxa 304 on pages 5-6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.156879