Repipta antica Stal
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 antica

description: Repipta antica Stål
Figs 1, 5, 11–13, Map 1
Zelus anticus Stål, 1860:78 [descr.], Brazil.
Repipta antica; Stål, 1872:80 [cit.]; Lethierry & Severin, 1896:180 [cat.]; Wygodzinsky, 1949:45 [cat.]; Maldonado, 1990:269 [cat.].
Redescription. — General coloration dark brown and light brown. Head: anteocular, postocular region, interocular sulcus, antennifer spines and neck dark brown, almost black, except clypeus, this dark brown; eyes surpassing inferior margin of head; antenna I and II dark brown; rostrum I brown basally, near middle, light brown apically; II light brown; III brown. Pronotum: anterior lobe, anterolateral angles and collar dark brown, almost black; submedian carina reaching half of posterior lobe; posterior lobe yellowish except posterior margin and insertion of discal spines, these dark brown. Scutellum: dark brown; posterior process long, acute and rounded. Pleura: dark brown, almost black; prosterna dark brown, almost black. Legs: coxae and trochanters dark brown, almost black, femora brown; tibiae brown; tarsus dark brown. Abdomen: connexival segments: light brown; unarmed; urosternites light brown and darker at edges, near connexival suture brown. Macropterous form: brown. Hemelytra: corium and clavus dark brown, almost black; hemelytron 1.60 mm longer than abdomen; membrane hyalinebrownish. Female genitalia: posterior view: as in (Fig. 11 A). Gonocoxite VIII: without pilosity, anterior fibula slightly curved and wide basally (Fig. 12 A). Gonapophysis VIII: without hairs (Fig. 12 A). Gonocoxite IX: without hairs and wide basally (Fig. 13 A).
Distribution: Brazil.
Material examined. Brazil: 1 Ƥ Pará: Belem, [1°27'S – 48°30'W], (ZSM).
Measurements. As in Table 1.
Female N=1 Max Total length 10.9 Head length 1.50 Head width 1.10 Anteocular region 0.45 Postocular region 0.35 Interocular region 0.50 Interocellar region 0.25 Pronotum length 1.95 Pronotum width 2.05 Scutellum length 0.50 Scutellum width 0.55 Scutellum posterior process length 0.37 Abdomen width 1.80 Eye length 0.55 Eye width 0.35 Eye height 0.60 Antennal segment 1 4.45 Antennal segment 2 1.45 Antennal segment 3 -
Antennal segment 4 -
Rostral segment 1 0.95 Rostral segment 2 0.80 Rostral segment 3 0.35 Head spines length 0.15 Posterior lobe of pronotum discal spines length 0.95 Posterior lobe of pronotum humeral spines length 0.55 Distance between head spines 0.50 Distance between discal spines 1.20 Distance between discal/humeral spines 1.15 Remarks. It superficially resembles R. lepidula and R. nigrospinosa sp. nov., but can be differentiated by the posterior lobe of pronotum, yellowish, the unarmed connexival segments, and genitalia traits. This species is confirmed from Brazil.
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 5-6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.213795