Repipta taurus 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 taurus

description: Repipta taurus (Fabricius)
Figs 3, 7,8–13, Map 5
Zelus taurus Fabricius, 1803:291 [descr.], USA—Carolina.
Zelus lineatus Amyot & Serville, 1843:373 [descr.]. Synonymized by Stål, 1872.
Repipta flavicans Fracker, 1913:242 [cit.]. In error.
Repipta taurus; Stål, 1862a:446 [descr.]; Stål, 1866:447 [cit.]; Stål, 1872:80 [cit.]; Uhler, 1876:61 [cat.]; Uhler, 1886:24 [cat.]; Lethierry & Severin, 1896:181 [cat.]; Osborn & Drake, 1915:531 [cit.]; Van Duzee, 1916:31 [cat.]; Readio, 1927:198 [cit.]; Frost, 1964:135 [cit.]; Henry & Froeschner, 1988:634 [cat.]; Wygodzinsky, 1949:45 [cat.]; Maldonado, 1990:270 [cat.]; Froeschner, 1999:209 [cat.]; Gámez-Virués et al. 2003:131 –134 [descr.].
Redescription. — General coloration red and dark brown. Head: light brown, brown pigmented with red or red in some specimens; if red, clypeus and labrum, dark brown; antennifer spines dark brown or red in some specimens; eyes not surpassing margins; antenna I light brown, brown or dark brown in some specimens; II light brown or brown in some specimens; III and IV light brown or brown in some specimens; III thickened basally and reduced gradually toward apex in males; rostrum I red, brown or red pigmented with light brown in some specimens; if red, apically light brown; II brown basally and dark brown ventrally, light brown with base brown, brown with base dark brown, light brown or brown in some specimens; III dark brown, light brown or brown in some specimens. Pronotum: anterior lobe red, red pigmented with brown, brown or light brown in some specimens; anterolateral angles and collar dark brown, brown or light brown in some specimens; submedian carina not clearly visible; posterior lobe brown, light brown, red except posterior margin, this pale or yellowish in some specimens, with an inverted “V” brown or dark brown coloration pattern beginning in anterior margin and reaching each humeral and discal spines (Figs. 3 I, 15B) or complete dark brown, almost black, in some specimens (Fig. 15 C). Scutellum: principal body red pigmented with brown; posterior process dark brown, light brown, red or yellowish, short or long, acuminate and flat in some specimens. Pleura: propleura dark brown, brown, light brown or red pigmented with brown in some specimens; mesopleura with a yellowish spot; metapleura with a dark brown spot; pro-, meso-, and metasterna red pigmented with brown. Legs: coxae dark brown with brown spots dorsally and ventrally, brown, light brown, red pigmented with brown and red in some specimens; trochanters light brown; femora brown or light brown in some specimens; tibiae dark brown, light brown or brown in some specimens; tarsus brown. Abdomen: connexival segments: dark brown, light brown, brown, red pigmented with brown and red in some specimens; unarmed; urosternites brown, red or light brown in some specimens; intersegmental lines brown or dark brown in segments II–VII (Fig. 7 C). Macropterous form: brown. Hemelytra: corium and clavus dark brown or brown except margins, these brown, cream colored, light brown or red in some specimens; hemelytron 0.36–1.52 mm longer than abdomen; membrane hyaline-brownish or hyaline in some specimens. Male genitalia: pygophore: globose, longer than wide, median process developed, subquadrangular (Fig. 8 J), parameres: short, thick, slightly curved with long hairs ventrally (Fig. 9 J). Phallus: articulatory apparatus, long, quadrangular, basal plate bridge long and thin, pedicel thin (Fig. 10 J). Female genitalia: posterior view: as in (Fig. 11 M). Gonocoxite VIII: sparse thin hairs (Fig. 12 M), anterior fibula curved (Fig. 12 M). Gonapophysis VIII: without hairs (Fig. 12 M). Gonocoxite IX: ventrally with abundant thin hairs, slightly wide basally (Fig. 13 M).
Distribution: Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, USA.
Material examined. Mexico: 1 3 1 Ƥ, [23°38'N – 102°33'W], Sallé leg; 1 3 Tabasco: Teapa, [17°33'N – 92°57'W], H.H.S. leg., (SMNH); 1 3 1 Ƥ Yucatán: Dzoyaxché, [20°47'N – 89°35'W], 25/IX/2005, 28/XII/ 2005, A. Martin-Park leg., (CER-UADY); USA: 1 3 Florida: Fort Myers, [26°38'N – 81°52'W], 02/VI/1967, M. Baehr det., P. P. Bably leg., (ZSM); 1 Ƥ Texas: Columbus, [29°42'N – 96°32'W], 1910, J. Maldonado det., Wickham leg; 1 Ƥ Mobile city, [32°55'N – 96°24'W], 1910, H. P. Löding leg., (FMNH); 1 Ƥ Texas, [31°58'N – 99°54'W], Belfrage leg., (SMNH).
Measurements. As in Table 19.
Remarks. It superficially resembles R. flavicans but can be differentiated by genitalia traits. We agree with the redescription of Gaméz-Virués et al. (2003), but include additional data such as male and female genitalia traits.
TABLE 19. Selected measurements (mm.) of Repipta taurus (Fabricius). Female N= 5 Male N=3
Min Max Min Max Total length 11.3 12.5 8.90 11.1 Head length 1.80 2.25 1.50 2.10 Head width 1.05 1.25 1.05 1.35 Anteocular region 0.55 0.70 0.45 0.60 Postocular region 0.45 0.55 0.40 0.50 Interocular region 0.55 0.60 0.50 0.60 Interocellar region 0.30 0.45 0.30 0.35 Pronotum length 2.00 2.50 1.55 2.25 Pronotum width 2.20 2.90 1.85 2.80 Scutellum length 0.60 0.85 0.62 0.80 Scutellum width 0.65 1.40 0.80 1.05 Scutellum posterior process length 0.20 0.37 0.22 0.25 Abdomen width 2.40 3.50 1.40 2.10 Eye length 0.40 0.50 0.40 0.55 Eye width 0.25 0.40 0.30 0.40 Eye height 0.50 0.60 0.50 0.60 Antennal segment 1 3.70 4.00 2.75 3.45 Antennal segment 2 1.15 1.25 - 0.95 Antennal segment 3 3.45 3.95 - -
Antennal segment 4 - 1.45 - -
Rostral segment 1 0.90 1.15 0.80 1.15 Rostral segment 2 0.60 0.90 0.70 0.85 Rostral segment 3 0.30 0.45 0.35 0.45 Head spines length 0.40 0.65 0.45 0.60 Posterior lobe of pronotum discal spines length 0.85 0.90 0.30 0.60 Posterior lobe of pronotum humeral spines length 0.50 0.75 0.20 0.55 Distance between head spines 0.65 1.05 0.65 0.65 Distance between discal spines 1.25 1.75 - 1.15 Distance between discal/humeral spines 1.40 1.90 0.95 1.15
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 46-48, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.213795