Heniartes putumayo Wygodzinsky, 1947

Forero, Dimitri, 2006, New records of Reduviidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Colombia and other Neotropical countries, Zootaxa 1107, pp. 1-47 : 23

Heniartes putumayo Wygodzinsky, 1947

H. putumayo may be confused with H. flavicans , but the anterolateral angles of the pronotum are bare whereas in H. flavicans the area is covered by adpressed short setae. In the only specimen examined here ( Fig. 37 ), the anterolateral angles of the collar have an area devoid of short setae, with only some scattered long hairs ( Fig. 36 ); the pronotum has many broken setae, but the submedian posterior lines of setae of the anterior lobe of the pronotum are composed of long setae, not of short ones as is generally found in H. flavicans ( Wygodzinsky 1947a) . The total length of the examined specimen is 18.7 mm, somewhat smaller than the female examined by Wygodzinsky (19 mm). Wygodzinsky (1947a) stated that even though H. putumayo is rather similar to H. flavicans , the above characteristics separate the two species. H. putumayo was described from Peru (Putumayo District) ( Wygodzinsky 1947a; Maldonado 1990). Villiers (1971) recorded “ Heniartes? putumayo ” additionally from French Guiana. The specimen listed below is a new record from Colombia.

Material examined: COLOMBIA, 1Ψ, Amazonas, Apaporis, III­1952, Dr. Medem [ UNCB].

Figures

FIGURES 28 – 37. Dorsal view of Reduviidae species. 28, Agriocoris flavipes; 29, Beharus cylindripes; 30, Heniartes cachabi; 31, Heniartes distinguendus; 32, Heniartes erythromerus; 33, Heniartes flavicans; 34, Heniartes lenti; 35, H. lenti, anterolateral angle of collar; 36, Heniartes putumayo, anterolateral angle of collar; 37, H. putumayo. Scale bar: 2 mm (28); 3 mm (29 ­ 34, 37).