Repipta nigronotata 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 nigronotata

description: Repipta nigronotata Stål
Figs 3, 6, 8–10, 16, Map 4
Zelus nigronotatus Walker, 1873:133 [cat.].
Repipta nigronotata; Stål, 1862a:447 [descr.], Guatemala, Mexico; Uhler, 1886:24 [cat.]; Lethierry & Severin, 1896:181 [cat.]; Osborn & Drake, 1915:531 [cit.]; Wygodzinsky, 1949:45 [cat.]; Maldonado, 1990:270 [cat.].
Redescription. — General coloration brown and light brown. Head: light brown except antenniferous tubercles, clypeus and antennifer spines, these brown; eyes not surpassing margins of head; antenna I brown with a yellowish band pattern close to apex; rostrum I, II and III brown. Pronotum: anterior lobe light brown with two broad longitudinal brown bands, each one next to longitudinal sulcus beginning at anterolateral angles and reaching anterior margin of posterior lobe; anterolateral angles and collar brown; submedian carina not clearly visible; posterior lobe brown, humeral spines and posterior margin lighter, with a middle narrow longitudinal light brown band beginning in posterior margin, across discal spines and ending near anterior margin; discal spines short (dentiform) (Fig. 16 G), abundant short hairs. Scutellum: principal body brown, light brown above and laterally; posterior process light brown, moderately long, acute and flat. Pleura: light brown except mesopleuron, this brown from medially above, meso-, and metasterna brown. Legs: coxae and trochanters brown; fore femora brown with two irregular light brown bands, medially and apically; mid- femora brown with two irregular, light brown bands: near medially; hind femora brown with three irregular light brown bands, basally, medially and apically; fore tibiae brown with three bands, these irregular and light brown, two bands close to base and one medially; mid- tibiae brown with two irregular, light brown bands, basally and near center; hind tibiae with three irregular light brown bands: basally, near base and medially; fore tarsus light brown; mid-, and hind tarsus light brown, claws darker. Abdomen: connexival segments: brown; unarmed; urosternites brown. Macropterous form: brown except margins, these dark brown. Hemelytra: corium and clavus brown; hemelytron 0.68 mm longer than abdomen; membrane hyaline-brownish. Male genitalia: Pygophore semicircular with 1 + 1 blunt projections laterally (Fig. 8 G), longer than wide, distally with a few long hairs, median process developed, blunt, lateral median process slightly rounded (Fig. 8 G), parameres: medium long, thin and straight, brown with short hairs ventrally (Fig. 9 G). Phallus: articulatory apparatus long, quadrangular, basal plate bridge long and wide, pedicel very wide (Fig. 10 G).
Male N=1 Max Total length 8.90 Head length 1.85 Head width 1.10 Anteocular region 0.65 Postocular region 0.45 Interocular region 0.50 Interocellar region 0.40 Pronotum length 1.60 Pronotum width 2.05 Scutellum length 0.52 Scutellum width 0.70 Scutellum posterior process length 0.27 Abdomen width 2.25 Eye length 0.45 Eye width 0.30 Eye height 0.50 Antennal segment 1 3.25 Antennal segment 2 -
Antennal segment 3 -
Antennal segment 4 -
Rostral segment 1 1.05 Rostral segment 2 0.95 Rostral segment 3 0.40 Head spines length -
Posterior lobe of pronotum discal spines length 0.15 Posterior lobe of pronotum humeral spines length 0.15 Distance between head spines -
Distance between discal spines 0.90 Distance between discal/humeral spines 0.95 MAP 4. Distribution of R. nigronotata, R. nigrospinosa sp. nov., R. obscuripes, R. paraguayensis sp. nov. and R. ruficorpus sp. nov.
Distribution: Argentina, Guatemala, Mexico.
Material examined. Argentina: 1 3 Córdoba: Alta Gracia, La Granja, [31°39'S – 64°25'W], 27/I/1937, P. Wygodzinsky det. as Repipta flavicans, Biraben-Scott leg., (MLP).
Measurement s. As in Table 13.
Remarks. The first record is from Argentina. A single South American specimen differs from Mexican and Central American specimens in having two longitudinal brown band patterns next to the longitudinal sulcus of the anterior lobe, and a narrow light brown band across the middle of the discal spines.
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 28-30, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.213795