Brontostoma rubrum ( Amyot & Serville, 1843 )

Forero, Dimitri, 2006, New records of Reduviidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Colombia and other Neotropical countries, Zootaxa 1107, pp. 1-47 : 6

Brontostoma rubrum ( Amyot & Serville, 1843)

Maldonado (1990) listed B. decolor ( Walker, 1873) as a valid species, although Carpintero (1980) had synonymyzed it some years before with B. rubrum . Wygodzinsky (1951) had previously considered them as separate species due to differences in coloration, but Carpintero (1980) demonstrated that those were in fact intraspecific variations. Gil­ Santana et al. (2005) studied the male genitalia of this species. B. rubrum has been recorded from Surinam, Guyana, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil ( Maldonado 1990; Dougherty 1995; Gil­Santana et al. 2005). The specimens listed below are new records from Colombia ( Fig. 3 ) where the species, until now, has only been found in the eastern savannas.

Material examined: COLOMBIA, 1Ψ, Meta, Guamas, Vereda Monserrate, 690 m, 8­XII­1985, I. de Arévalo [ UNCB]; 1ɗ, [Meta?], Estación Bocas del Ariari, 18­II­1969, P. Pinto [ UNCB]; 1ɗ, Meta, San Juan de Arama, La Curia, Estación Dantas, 350 m, 22­IX­ 1987, Grp. Sist. Anim. II [ UNCB]; 1ɗ, Meta, Mun. San Juan de Arama, camino al río Güejar, 380 m, 27­IX­1987, Grp. Sist. Anim. II [ UNCB]; 1ɗ, Vaupés, Guayabero [river?], 190 m, VI­1968 [ UNCB].

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 9. Dorsal view of Reduviidae species. 1, Brontostoma discus; 2, B. notatum, male; 3, B. rubrum, male; 4, B. sanguinosum, female; 5, Daraxa sp.; 6, Daraxa sp.; 7, Parapothea sp.; 8, Pothea annulipes; 9, Zirta hirticornis, male. Scale bar: 1 mm (5 ­ 6); 2 mm (1); 3 mm (2 ­ 3, 7 ­ 9); 4 mm (4).