Repipta sexdens Fabricius
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 sexdens

description: Repipta sexdens (Fabricius)
Figs 3, 6, Map 5
Zelus sexdens Fabricius, 1803:287 [descr.], Guyana.
Corcia sexdens: Stål, 1872:86 [cit.]. In error.
Repipta sexdens; Stål, 1868:102 [descr.]; Wygodzinsky, 1949:45 [cat.]; Maldonado, 1990:270 [cat.].
Redescription. — General coloration brown and light brown. Head: brown except clypeus, gena, buccula and postocular region, these dark brown laterally in some specimens; antennifer spines light brown; eyes not surpassing margins of head; antenna I and II brown except apically, this darker; III and IV brown, intersegmental joint yellowish; rostrum I and II light brown; III brown. Pronotum: brown with a broad middle longitudinal light brown band beginning in collar and ending in posterior margin of posterior lobe; anterior lobe; submedian carina from anterior margin of posterior lobe to less than half length of posterior lobe; posterior lobe with an inverted “V” brown or dark brown coloration pattern beginning in anterior margin and reaching each humeral and discal spines (Fig. 3 G); humeral and discal spines light brown. Scutellum: principal body brown basally and light brown toward apex; posterior process light brown, acute and flat. Pleura: propleura dark brown, acetabulum light brown; mesopleura dark brown except superior and inferior margins, these light brown; metapleura dark brown except superior and inferior margin, these lighter. Legs: fore coxae brown with a dark brown spot dorsally; mid-, and hind coxae brown; trochanters brown; femora brown, apically dark brown; tibiae brown, not homogeneously pigmented with dark brown; tarsus brown except distally dark brown. Abdomen: connexival segments: brown; segments II–VI armed with short spines at their outer apical angles, being V and VI longer than basal spines; urosternites brown with a dark brown band pattern laterally in middle covering segments I–IX (Fig. 6 L). Macropterous form dark brown. Hemelytra: corium and clavus dark brown; hemelytron longer than abdomen; membrane hyalinebrownish.
Distribution: Guyana.
Female (Holotype) N=1 Max Total length 11.7 Head length 2.04 Head width 1.28 Anteocular region 0.48 Postocular region 0.44 Interocular region 0.52 Interocellar region 0.32 Pronotum length 2.16 Pronotum width 2.28 Scutellum length 0.57 Scutellum width 0.72 Scutellum posterior process length 0.25 Abdomen width 2.00 Eye length 0.56 Eye width 0.40 Eye height 0.68 Antennal segment 1 4.20 Antennal segment 2 -
Antennal segment 3 -
Antennal segment 4 -
Rostral segment 1 0.96 Rostral segment 2 0.72 Rostral segment 3 0.28 Head spines length 0.48 Posterior lobe of pronotum discal spines length 0.72 Posterior lobe of pronotum humeral spines length 0.56 Distance between head spines 0.84 Distance between discal spines -
Distance between discal/humeral spines 1.48 Material examined. TYPE, 2 Ƥ Guyana, [5°48'N – 59°01'W], Fabricius det., (NHMDO).
Remarks. Images provided by (NHMDO). It superficially resembles R. ecuadorensis sp. nov., but can be differentiated by connexival spines in segments II–VII and urosternites with a lateral band pattern.
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 44-46, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.213795