Repipta ruficorpus 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 ruficorpus

description: Repipta ruficorpus Martin-Park & Coscarón, sp. nov.
Figs 3, 6, 8–10, Map 4
Description. — General coloration red, brown and light brown. Head: red except labrum, anteclypeus and gena, these brown or yellowish in some specimens; eyes surpassing inferior margin (Fig. 6 J); antenna I and II brown; III dark brown, thickened basally and reduced gradually toward apex; rostrum I red, intersegmental line brown; II red basally and light brown distally or completely brown in some specimens; III light brown, all with a ventral longitudinal brown line. Pronotum: anterior and posterior lobe red or red pigmented with brown in some specimens; anterolateral angles and collar red or brown in some specimens; submedian carina reaching less than half length of posterior lobe. Scutellum: principal body and posterior process red, brown or yellowish in some specimens; posterior process acuminate and flat. Pleura: red or red with yellow in some specimens; pro-, meso-, and mestasterna red or brown in some specimens. Legs: coxae red, intersegmental line brown or pale, trochanters red, fore femora red basally and brown toward apex; mid- femora red or brown in some specimens; hind femora red, brown or dark brown in some specimens (if dark brown, apex red-colored); fore-, and mid- tibiae brown or yellowish in some specimens (if yellowish, apex red-colored), hind tibiae yellowish, brown or dark brown in some specimens (in latter case, apically red); tarsus light brown or brown in some specimens. Abdomen: connexival segments and urosternites: red, red pigmented with brown or yellow in some specimens; unarmed. Macropterous form: red or brown in some specimens. Hemelytra: corium and clavus red or light brown basally and distally red before membrane in some specimens; hemelytron 2.28–2.88 mm longer than abdomen; membrane hyaline. Male genitalia: pygophore: subglobose, slightly longer than wide, median process developed acute, lateral median process acute reaching middle of median process (Fig. 8 I), parameres: medium long, thick and curved with abundant long hairs ventrally and externally (Fig. 9 I). Phallus: articulatory apparatus, long, quadrangular, basal plate bridge short and wide, pedicel very wide (Fig. 10 I).
Female (Holotype) N=1 Max Total length 11.7 Head length 1.96 Head width 1.24 Anteocular region 0.56 Postocular region 0.44 Interocular region 0.56 Interocellar region 0.36 Pronotum length 2.36 Pronotum width 2.32 Scutellum length 0.42 Scutellum width 0.62 Scutellum posterior process length 0.27 Abdomen width 2.20 Eye length 0.72 Eye width 0.36 Eye height 0.60 Antennal segment 1 -
Antennal segment 2 -
Antennal segment 3 -
Antennal segment 4 -
Rostral segment 1 1.20 Rostral segment 2 0.84 Rostral segment 3 0.40 Head spines length 0.60 Posterior lobe of pronotum discal spines length 0.88 Posterior lobe of pronotum humeral spines length 0.76 Distance between head spines 1.00 Distance between discal spines -
Distance between discal/humeral spines 1.44 Distribution: Brazil.
Material examined. HOLOTYPE, 1 3 Brazil: Santa Catarina: Nova Teutonia, [27°03'S – 52°24'W], 01/XII/ 1938, Froeschner det. as Repipta sp., F. Plaumann leg. (FMNH). PARATYPES, 1 3 Brasilia, [15°46'S – 47°55'W], (ZSM); 1 3 Río de Janeiro: Nova Friburgo, [22°17'S – 42°32'W], J. Maldonado det. as Repipta obscuripes, F. Sahlberg leg., (FMNH).
Measurements. As in Table 17.
Male(Holotype) N= 1 Male N=2
Max Min Max Total length 14.1 13.4 14.1 Head length 2.30 2.10 2.30 Head width 1.60 1.55 1.60 Anteocular region 0.65 0.55 0.65 Postocular region 0.50 0.45 0.50 Interocular region 0.55 0.55 0.55 Interocellar region 0.35 0.35 0.40 Pronotum length 2.35 2.30 2.35 Pronotum width 2.60 2.60 2.65 Scutellum length 0.70 0.70 0.80 Scutellum width 1.00 0.90 1.00 Scutellum posterior process length 0.20 0.20 0.25 Abdomen width 2.45 1.75 2.45 Eye length 0.70 0.65 0.70 Eye width 0.55 0.50 0.55 Eye height 0.80 0.80 0.85 Antennal segment 1 5.00 5.00 5.00 Antennal segment 2 - - 1.25 Antennal segment 3 - - -
Antennal segment 4 - - -
Rostral segment 1 1.20 1.10 1.25 Rostral segment 2 0.75 0.75 0.95 Rostral segment 3 0.50 0.50 0.50 Head spines length 0.25 0.25 0.40 Posterior lobe of pronotum discal spines length 0.40 0.95 1.20 Posterior lobe of pronotum humeral spines length 0.35 0.35 0.90 Distance between head spines 0.70 0.70 0.75 Distance between discal spines 1.45 1.45 1.60 Distance between discal/humeral spines 1.40 1.40 1.95
Remarks. It superficially resembles R. coccinea and R. obscuripes but can be differentiated by its slender body, red coloration of entire body, and genitalia traits.
Etymology. Named for its red body coloration.
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 41-43, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.213795