Repipta hondurensis 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 hondurensis

description: Repipta hondurensis Martin-Park & Coscarón, sp. nov.
Figs 2, 6, 8–10, 16, Map 3
Description. — General coloration red and brown. Head: red pigmented with brown except clypeus, buccula and labrum, these brown; antennifer spines of a lighter tone; eyes surpassing inferior margin; antenna I red pigmented with brown; II brown; III brown, thickened at base and reduced gradually toward apex; IV like III but not increased; rostrum I red, intersegmental segment brown in some specimens; II and III brown; all rostral segments with a ventral longitudinal brown line. Pronotum: red pigmented with brown; submedian carina beginning in middle of anterior lobe and reaching each discal spines of posterior lobe, covered with short hairs; humeral and discal spines brown basally and dark brown toward apex; posterior margin brown. Scutellum: principal body red; lateral edges brown; posterior process light brown or red in some specimens, short, acute and rounded. Pleura: red pigmented with brown; mesopleuron with two pale spots on posterior margin reaching metapleuron; prosterna light brown except stridulatory sulcus, this red pigmented with brown; meso-, and metasterna light brown. Legs: coxae red pigmented with brown, inferior margin light brown, trochanters red pigmented with brown, fore femora red pigmented with brown; mid-, and hind femora light brown from base to near middle and red pigmented with brown apically; fore tibiae basally to medially red pigmented with brown and light brown apically; mid- tibiae basally red pigmented with brown, and light brown apically; hind tibiae red pigmented with brown basally, near center, and light brown apically; tarsus brown. Abdomen: connexival segments: light brown; urosternites light brown; unarmed. Macropterous form: light brown or brown in some specimens. Hemelytra: corium red pigmented with brown or brown in some specimens, clavus light brown pigmented with brown; hemelytron 2.08–2.60 mm longer than abdomen; membrane hyaline-brownish. Male genitalia: pygophore: ovoid, longer than wide, distally with abundant long hairs (Fig. 8 F), parameres: short, straight, distally brown and with a few long hairs ventrally (Fig. 9 F) Phallus: articulatory apparatus long, quadrangular, basal plate bridge long and thin, pedicel wide (Fig. 10 F).
Distribution: Honduras.
Material examined. HOLOTYPE, 1 3 Honduras: Olancho: Parque Nacional La Muralla, [15°04'N – 86°45'W], 01/IV/1995, R. Cave leg. PARATYPE, 1 3 Olancho: Parque Nacional La Muralla, [15°04'N – 86°45'W], 14/IX/1996, R. Cave leg., (MZLU).
Measurements. As in Table 11.
Remarks. It superficially resembles to R. schaeferi sp. nov., but can be differentiated by the pronotum coloration and presence of complete submedian carina with hairs.
Etymology. Named for its distribution in Honduras.
Male (Holotype) N= 1 Male N=1 Repipta lepidula; Stål, 1866:296 [descr.], Brazil; Lethierry & Severin, 1896:181 [cat.]; Wygodzinsky, 1949:45 [cat.]; Maldonado, 1990:270 [cat.].
Redescription. — General coloration dark brown. Head: brown or dark brown in some specimens; if brown, interocular region, anteocular region, jugum, clypeus, gena, labrum, buccula, antennifer spines, and neck dark brown; if dark brown, interocular region covered by a band pattern, ocellar and postocular region ventrally brown, and bucculae ventrally brown; antenniferous tubercles pale; eyes not surpassing margins of head; antenna I–IV dark brown; rostrum I basally brown or dark brown and light brown toward apex in some specimens; II light brown or dark brown basally and light brown toward apex in some specimens; III brown. Pronotum: dark brown except posterior margin of posterior lobe, this light brown, and posterior lobe spines, these brown; submedian carina beginning in anterior margin of posterior lobe and reaching middle of posterior lobe. Scutellum: principal body yellowish or light brown in some specimens; lateral edges with granulations; posterior process, yellowish, acuminate and flat. Pleura: light brown except meso-, and metapleuron in upper margin, these dark brown; pro-, meso-, and metasterna light brown or pale in some specimens. Legs: coxae and trochanters light brown, brown or dark brown in some specimens; femora brown; tibiae brown; tarsus brown or brown medially and dark brown apically in some specimens. Abdomen: connexival segments: brown; unarmed; urosternites light brown pigmented with white and with an irregular lateral brown band from connexivum across segments II–VIII (Fig. 6 D). Macropterous form: brown, base light brown. Hemelytra: corium and clavus brown; hemelytron 0.92–1.00 mm longer than abdomen; membrane hyaline-brownish. Female genitalia: posterior view: as in (Fig. 11 I). Gonocoxite VIII: without hairs (Fig. 12 I), anterior fibula slightly curved, wide basally (Fig. 12 I). Gonapophysis VIII: without hairs (Fig. 12 I). Gonocoxite IX: ventrally with abundant thin hairs, wide basally (Fig. 13 I).
Female N=5 Distribution: Brazil, Guadalupe, Peru.
Material examined. Brazil: 2 Ƥ Amazonas: Río Cauaburi, [0°31'N – 67°16'W], 23/01/1963, 24/II/1964, C. Lindenmann leg., Peru: 3 Ƥ Huánuco: Panagua, Río Llullapichis, [3°52'S – 73°13'W], 6–17/IV/2003, 28/IX–06/X/ 2000, E. Burmeister, E. Diller, T. Kothe & W. Sclang leg., (ZSM).
Measurements. As in Table 12.
Remarks. In the first record from Peru it superficially resembles R. nigrospinosa sp. nov., but can be differentiated by its unarmed connexivum and the lateral band pattern of abdomen.
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 24-28, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.213795