Neotropiconyttus dama ( Burmeister, 1838 )

Gamboa, Jean, Gil-Santana, Hélcio R., Gamboa-Tabares, Armando, Martínez-Viuche, Eidy & Serna, Francisco, 2024, A new species of Neotropiconyttus Kirkaldy (Hemiptera, Reduviidae) in a cacao plantation from the Colombian Napo Province, including a key to species, and taxonomic notes of the genus, ZooKeys 1207, pp. 185-204 : 185-204

Neotropiconyttus dama ( Burmeister, 1838)

Figs 43–51

Myocoris dama Burmeister, 1838: 105 [description]; Walker 1873: 130 [catalog].

Amaurosphodrus dama ; Stål 1872: 82 [catalog]; Lethierry and Severin 1896: 178 [catalog].

Neotropiconyttus dama ; Wygodzinsky 1949: 42 [catalog]; Maldonado 1990: 241 [catalog]; Maldonado and Lozada 1992: 165 [comparison with other species based on color characteristics].

Distribution.

Brazil.

Type material examined.

Myocoris dama Burmeister, 1838 . Brazil: three female syntypes: [printed label] 2780 // [handwritten green label] Dama / N. // [handwritten green label] Parà [Pará] Sieber // [printed red label] Typus; [handwritten] 2780 // [handwritten] x Neotropiconyttus / dama (Burm.) / Paratypus ♀ // [handwritten green label] Para / Sieber // [printed red label] Paratypus; [handwritten] 2780 // [handwritten] x Neotropiconyttus / dama (Burm.) / Paratypus ♀ // [handwritten green label] Para / Sieber // [printed red label] Paratypus ( MFNB).

Neotropiconyttus dama was described based on specimens from the State of Pará, Brazil ( Burmeister 1838). In the MFNB, there are three female type specimens of N. dama . One specimen is labeled as “ Typus ” (Figs 43–45 ); the others are labeled as “ Paratypus ” (Figs 46–51 ). All of them are considered as syntypes in this work, following Art. 73.2 of the ICZN (1999). Notably, all the syntypes have a green label stating, besides the name of the Brazilian state of Pará, the name of “ Sieber. ” Friedrich Wilhelm Sieber was a servant and preparator of Johann Centurius Count von Hoffmannsegg, who obtained permission from the King of Portugal to visit Brazil to collect insects. Leaving Lisbon in 1801, Sieber went to the Province of Pará, where he stayed for 12 years, collecting not only in the vicinity of Belém but also in different areas of the provinces of Pará and Rio Negro (currently, state of Amazonas) ( Papavero 1971). Therefore, the precise type locality of the species in this large region remains uncertain.

Morphological remarks.

General length 12‒12.5 mm. General color blackish; labium with distal 1 / 2 of second and third visible labial segments variably paler; neck, prothorax, and mesothorax mostly reddish; humeral angles, posterior margins of mesopleura and mesosternum, and most of metapleura dark to blackish. Legs: except for fore coxae and a portion of fore trochanters, which are reddish, the remaining portions of the legs mostly dark to blackish; dorsal portion of distal ~ 2 / 3 of fore femora paler, and ill-defined pale yellowish annuli; middle and hind femora with submedian distal pale whitish to yellowish annuli; hemelytra darkened. Abdomen: sternites mostly yellowish with the following portions or markings blackish: narrowly basally on sternite II and adjacent connexival portion; on segments IV ‒ VII: connexivum and shortly adjacent portion, median markings of variable extension on respective sternites, and genitalia.

Figures

Figures 43–51. Neotropiconyttus dama (Burmeister, 1838), syntypes, females 43–45 specimen labeled as “ Typus ” 43 dorsal view 44 lateral view 45 labels 46–51 specimens labeled as “ Paratypus ” 46 dorsal view 47 lateral view 48 labels 49 dorsal view 50 lateral view 51 labels.