Repipta paraguayensis 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 paraguayensis

description: Repipta paraguayensis Martin-Park & Coscarón, sp. nov.
Figs 3, 6, 11–13, Map 4
Description. — General coloration dark brown, almost black and red. Head: red except clypeus, gena, jugum, labrum, buccula, anteocular region, interocular suture, ocellar tubercles and most of interocular region and antennifer spines, these dark brown; eyes not surpassing margins of head; rostrum I red pigmented with dark brown; II brown and dark brown; III dark brown. Pronotum: anterior lobe, anterolateral angles and collar red; submedian carina reaching less than half length of posterior lobe; posterior lobe dark brown with a red pigmented with a brown narrow band pattern beginning in anterior margin, passing through middle of discal spines and ending in posterior margin (Fig. 3 D). Scutellum: red; posterior process short, acuminate and flat. Pleura: propleuron red, brown medially; mesopleuron red with a vertical dark brown spot near posterior margin; metapleuron, superior margin to middle red and dark brown to inferior margin; prosterna red; mesosterna brown with two red lines; metasterna dark brown. Legs: coxae and trochanters red, fore femora brown with a light brown fringe basally to medially, and light brown band pattern near center; mid- femora brown with a light brown band pattern slightly beyond middle; hind femora brown with two light brown bands, basally and close to apex; tibiae brown with a light brown band near middle; tarsus brown basally and dark brown toward apex. Abdomen: connexival segments: red except segments VII and VIII, these with dark brown irregular spots; segments III–VI armed with short light brown spines at their outer apical angles; urosternites red not homogeneously pigmented with dark brown, almost black. Macropterous form: dark brown. Hemelytra: corium and clavus dark brown; hemelytron 0.88 mm longer than abdomen; membrane hyaline-brownish. Female genitalia: posterior view: as in (Fig. 11 L). Gonocoxite VIII: without hairs, with a brown subquadrangular spot (Fig. 12 L), anterior fibula curved (Fig. 12 L). Gonapophysis VIII: with sparse thin hairs (Fig. 12 L). Gonocoxite IX: distally and ventrally with abundant thin hairs, wide basally with two brown spots (Fig. 13 L).
Female N=1 Max Total length 12.5 Head length 2.25 Head width 1.25 Anteocular region 0.80 Postocular region 0.55 Interocular region 0.60 Interocellar region 0.35 Pronotum length 2.40 Pronotum width 2.70 Scutellum length 0.90 Scutellum width 0.95 Scutellum posterior process length 0.40 Abdomen width 3.15 Eye length 0.45 Eye width 0.35 Eye height 0.60 Antennal segment 1 -
Antennal segment 2 -
Antennal segment 3 -
Antennal segment 4 -
Rostral segment 1 1.30 Rostral segment 2 1.05 Rostral segment 3 0.45 Head spines length 0.50 Posterior lobe of pronotum discal spines length 0.90 Posterior lobe of pronotum humeral spines length -
Distance between head spines 1.00 Distance between discal spines 1.45 Distance between discal/humeral spines 1.30 Distribution: Paraguay.
Material examined. HOLOTYPE, 1 Ƥ Paraguay: Itapúa, Hohenau, [27°04'S – 55°38'W], (ZSM).
Measurements. As in Table 16.
Remarks. It superficially resembles R. ayelenae sp. nov., but can be differentiated by its dark brown anteocular region, dark brown mid-, and hind femora with two bands at the base and near its apex, narrower pronotum and abdomen, connexival segments III–VI armed with spines, and genitalia traits.
Etymology. Named for its distribution in Paraguay.
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 33-41, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.213795