Repipta flavicans (Amyot & Serville)

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, Zootaxa 3501, pp. 1-54 : 17-24

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scientific name	Repipta flavicans (Amyot & Serville)
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Repipta flavicans (Amyot & Serville) View in CoL

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Zelus flavicans Amyot & Serville, 1843:374 [descr.], Brazil.

Zelus lateralis Herrich-Schaeffer, 1853:120 [descr.], Brazil. Synonymized by Stål, 1872.

Zelus ochraceus Herrich-Schaeffer, 1853:121 [descr.], Brazil. Synonymized by Stål, 1872.

Zelus varipes Herrich-Schaeffer, 1853:121 [descr.], Brazil. Synonymized by Lethierry & Severin 1896.

Repipta varipes Stål, 1872:80 [cit.]; Wygodzinsky, 1949:45 [cat.].

Repipta flavicans View in CoL ; Stål, 1862a:447 [descr.]; Stål, 1872:80 [cit.]; Berg, 1879: 147 [descr.]; Lethierry & Severin, 1896:180 [cat.]; Osborn & Drake, 1915:531 [cit.]; Van Duzee, 1916:31 [cat.]; Readio, 1927:199 [cit.]; Rau, 1933:189 [cit.]; Wygodzinsky, 1949:45 [cat.]; Ruffinelli & Pirán, 1959:1 –60 [cat.]; Henry & Froeschner, 1988:634 [cat.]; Maldonado, 1990:269, 270 [cat.]; Froeschner, 1999:209 [cat.]; Gámez-Virués et al. 2003:127 –131 [descr.].

Redescription. — General coloration light brown, brown, red or red pigmented with brown. Head: brown, light brown, red or red pigmented with brown in some specimens; gena, clypeus, jugum, labrum and interocular suture brown or dark brown, light brown in some specimens; antennifer spines light brown, brown or dark brown; eyes not surpassing margins of head; antenna I light brown or brown in some specimens; II light brown, dark brown or basally to medially light brown and brown toward apex in some specimens; III and IV light brown or brown in some specimens; rostrum I and II brown, light brown, red or yellowish pigmented with brown in some specimens; III brown or dark brown in some specimens. Pronotum: anterior lobe light brown, brown, red or red pigmented with brown, with a wide longitudinal light brown band across all anterior lobe in some specimens; anterolateral angles light brown, red or brown in some specimens; collar like anterolateral angles or red pigmented with brown in some specimens; submedian carina reaching less than half length of posterior lobe; posterior lobe light brown, dark brown, red or light brown pigmented with red in some specimens, with an inverted “V” brown or dark brown pattern or four bands, beginning in anterior margin and reaching each humeral and discal spines, these brown. Scutellum: principal body red pigmented with brown, red, light brown or pale in some specimens; posterior process pale, light brown or brown, short or moderately long, acuminate and rounded in some specimens. Pleura: light brown, brown, pale, red or red pigmented with brown in some specimens; if light brown pro-, meso-, and metapleuron with a dark brown irregular spot near inferior margin in some specimens; pro-, meso-, and mestasterna light brown, brown, red or red pigmented with brown. Legs: light brown not homogeneously pigmented with brown; coxae and trochanters light brown, brown, red or red pigmented with brown in some specimens; femora brown, light brown or red pigmented with brown, with three brown bands, sometimes dark brown: basally, near center and apically in some specimens; tibiae with same coloration and banded pattern like femora; tarsus brown. Abdomen: connexival segments: brown, light brown, red or red pigmented with brown in some specimens; unarmed or segments III–V armed with short, light brown, curved spines at their outer apical angles ( Fig. 16 View FIGURE 16. A F) in some specimens; urosternites light brown not homogeneously pigmented with brown, brown, light brown, red or red pigmented with brown, with a dark brown quadrangular spot above connexival segments and ventrally with dark brown intersegmental lines in some specimens. Macropterous form: brown, dark brown or red pigmented with brown in some specimens. Hemelytra: corium and clavus brown, dark brown or red pigmented with brown in some specimens; hemelytron 1.00– 1.80 mm longer than abdomen; membrane hyaline-brownish. Male genitalia: pygophore: globose, longer than wide, few short hairs distally, median process developed and quadrangular ( Fig. 8 View FIGURE 8 D), parameres: short, thick and curved, brown medially to distally with long hairs ventrally ( Fig. 9 View FIGURE 9 D). Phallus: articulatory apparatus quadrangular, medium long, basal plate bridge thin and long, pedicel thin, with a rounded protuberance medially ( Fig. 10 View FIGURE 10 D). Female genitalia: posterior view: as in ( Fig. 11 View FIGURE 11 G). Gonocoxite VIII: abundant thin and thick hairs, anterior fibula curved, wide basally with a brown circular spot near external margin and reaching anterior fibula ( Fig. 12 View FIGURE 12 G). Gonapophysis VIII: ventrally with abundant thick hairs ( Fig. 12 View FIGURE 12 G). Gonocoxite IX: ventrally with abundant thin hairs and wide basally ( Fig. 13 View FIGURE 13 G).

Distribution: Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, French Guiana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Uruguay.

Material examined. Argentina: 1 3 1 Ƥ Chaco: Quitilipi, [26°54'S – 60°12'W], 05/II/1942, ( MLP), ( ZSM); 2 Ƥ Corrientes: Ituzaingo, [27°35'S – 56°41'W], 29/IV/2003; 1 Ƥ Mburucuyá [28°02'S – 58°08'W], 10/XII/2004, M.C. Coscarón det; 1 3 Pellegrini, [27°27'S – 58°50'W], 02/XII/2001, M.C. Melo leg., Coscarón expedition; 1 Ƥ Formosa: Misión Laishi, [26º14'S – 58º37'W], 12/XI/1942, Biraben-Bezzi leg; 1 Ƥ Misiones: Iguazú [25º39'S – 54º30'W], XI/1944, M. Biraben leg. ( MLP); Bolivia: 1 Ƥ Chapare, [16°31'S – 65°03'W], 30/IX/1952; 1 Ƥ Nor Yungas: Coroico, [16º11'S – 67º43'W], 17/V/1950, P. Wygodzinsky det. ( ZSM); Brazil: 2 32Ƥ[14°01'S – 50°58'W], F. Sahlb leg; 2 3 1 Ƥ Brasilia, [15°46'S – 47°55'W]; 1 Ƥ Río Grande do Sul, [29°32'S – 56°41'W], J.C. Elkins det., [ SMNH]; 1 3 2 Ƥ Santa Catarina: Nova Teutonia, [27°03'S – 52°24'W], 29/ XII/1944, V/1949, 13/IX/1944, J.M. Bérenger, P. Wygodzinsky det., F. Plaumann leg., ( ZSM); Colombia: 4 3 1 Ƥ [4°34'N – 74°17'W], 1939, S. Dalh leg., ( MZLU); 1 3 Cordillera Oriental, [8º27'N – 73º25'W], M. Redondo leg., ( ZSM); 2 Ƥ Cundinamarca, [5°01'N – 74°01'W], III/1931, ( MLP); Guatemala: 1 3 Cerro Zapote, [15º29'N – 88º31'W], G.C. Champion det., ( SMNH); Mexico: 1 Ƥ Tabasco: Teapa, [17°33'N – 92°57'W], ( SMNH); Paraguay: 1 Ƥ Asunción, [21º16'S – 57º38'W]; 1 3 Hohenau, [27°04'S – 55°38'W], 12/XII/1924; 2 3 2 Ƥ Independencia, [25°41'S – 56°15'W], ( ZSM); 1 3 Caaguazu: Raúl Oviedo, [25º08'S – 55º26'W], 08/12/2000, B & S. Bembé leg; 1 Ƥ Guairá: Villarrica, [25°45'S – 56°25'W], 1924, J. Maldonado det., F. Schade leg., ( FMNH); Peru: 1 Ƥ Amazonas: Iquitos, [3º43'S – 73º15'W], J.C. Elkins det., ( SMNH); 5 3 1 Ƥ Huánuco, [9º55'S – 76º13'W], 0 6–17/IV/2000, T. Kothe leg., ( ZSM); 2 3 Madre de Dios, [12°12'S – 70°27'W], 01/I/1984, L. Huggert, E. Burmeister, E. Diller, T. Kothe & W. Sclang leg., ( MZLU); 1 Ƥ Loreto: Pevas, [3º19'S – 71º51'W], J.C. Elkins det., ( SMNH); 1 3 Satipo, [11°15'S – 74°38'W], 18/I/1984, L. Huggert leg., ( MZLU); 1 3 Canchis: Sicuani, [14°17'S – 71°13'W], ( ZSM).

Measurements. As in Table 9 View TABLE 9 .

Remarks. In the first records from Colombia, Paraguay, and Peru, R. flavicans varies widely in body size, legs, anterior and posterior lobe coloration pattern, size of antennifer, and posterior lobe spines (14 A–D). Colombian and Argentinian specimens are armed with short spines in the connexival segments ( Fig. 16 View FIGURE 16. A F). We agree with Berg (1879) and Champion (1899), who noted these differences between specimens from Mexico and Central America compared to those from South America, as “transitional form.” We also agree with the redescription of Gaméz- Virués et al. (2003), but have included additional data such as male and female genitalia traits.

lsocondylus fuscipes Stål, 1855:189 View in CoL [descr.], Mexico, USA—Texas.

Repipta fuscipes View in CoL ; Stål, 1862a:446 [descr.]; Uhler, 1886:24 [cat.]; Lethierry & Severin, 1896:180 [cat.]; Wygodzinsky, 1949:45 [cat.]; Maldonado, 1990:270 [cat.].

Redescription. — General coloration dark brown and light brown. Head: brown or light brown in some specimens, except clypeus and antennifer spines, these darker; ocellar area with a dark brown semicircular spot; eyes surpassing inferior margin of head in males; antenna I–IV dark brown; III thickened at base and reduced gradually toward apex in males; rostrum I–III dark brown, cream colored between intersegmental segments. Pronotum: anterior lobe light brown, except an inverted “U” formed by anterolateral angles and collar, reaching or near anterior acetabulum, this with a dark brown pattern ( Fig. 16A View FIGURE 16. A ); submedian carina reaching less than half length of posterior lobe; posterior lobe dark brown except posterior margin, this light brown. Scutellum: principal body light brown except a circular or triangular dark brown spot medially; posterior process brown, acute short and rounded. Pleura: propleura brown with a dark brown spot; meso-, and metapleura light brown; prosterna light brown; meso-, and metasterna brown. Legs: coxae light brown; trochanters dark brown; femora dark brown; hind femora with a whitish spot basally; tibiae dark brown; tarsus basally to medially brown and dark brown apically. Abdomen: connexival segments: brown or light brown with a dark brown spots placed in intersegmental suture in some specimens; unarmed; urosternites light brown or with cream tones in some specimens; ventrally with a dark brown intersegmental line in segments IV–VI in males and IV–VII in females. Macropterous form: brown or dark brown in males, almost black in females. Hemelytra: corium and clavus brown or dark brown in males, almost black in females; hemelytron 2.16–2.56 mm longer than abdomen; membrane hyaline-brownish in males and dark brown in females. Male genitalia: pygophore: subquadrangular, longer than wide, with abundant long hairs distally ( Fig. 8 View FIGURE 8 E), median process developed, long and rounded (finger-shaped), lateral median process semicircular with long hairs ( Fig. 8 View FIGURE 8 E), parameres long, thin and straight, medially to distally brown with long hairs ventrally and externally ( Fig. 9 View FIGURE 9 E). Phallus: articulatory apparatus oval, medium long, basal plate bridge very short, pedicel wide ( Fig. 10 View FIGURE 10 E). Female genitalia: posterior view: as in ( Fig. 11 View FIGURE 11 H). Gonocoxite VIII: sparse thin hairs ( Fig. 12 View FIGURE 12 H), anterior fibula slightly subquadrangular, widened proximally ( Fig. 12 View FIGURE 12 H). Gonapophysis VIII: ventrally with abundant thin hairs ( Fig. 12 View FIGURE 12 H). Gonocoxite IX: ventrally with abundant thin and thick hairs, not wide basally ( Fig. 13 View FIGURE 13 H).

MAP 3. Distribution of R. fuscipes , R. fuscospinosa , R. hondurensis sp. nov., R. lepidula and R. mucosa .

Distribution: El Salvador, Mexico, USA.

Material examined. Mexico: 2 3 2 Ƥ Oaxaca, [17°04'N – 96°43'W], 0 6, 19, 22/IX/1990, ( MULU); 1 3 Volcán de Colima, [17°05'N – 96°42'W], 18/VIII/1918, P. Wygodzinsky det., ( ZSM).

Measurements. As in Table 10 View TABLE 10 .

Remarks. Posterior lobe spines vary in size from very short to very long, and antennifer spines are very short.

Repipta fuscospinosa View in CoL ; Stål, 1859:369 [descr.], Brazil; Lethierry & Severin, 1896:181 [cat.]; Wygodzinsky, 1949:45 [cat.]; Maldonado, 1990: 270 [cat.].

Redescription. — General coloration red with brown. Head: red except labrum and bucculae, these brown, antennifer spines darker; eyes not surpassing margins of head. Pronotum: red; anterior lobe with abundant short hairs laterally; submedian carina beginning in middle of anterior lobe and reaching less than half length of posterior lobe; posterior lobe (discal and humeral) spines dark brown at tip. Scutellum: red; posterior process short, acuminate and rounded. Pleura: red pigmented with light brown in anterior and superior margins; prosterna red; meso-, and metasterna brown medially and red laterally. Legs: coxae red pigmented with brown in inferior margin and trochanters light brown; fore-, and mid- femora red basally to medially or light brown and dark brown apically in some specimens; hind femora red at base and dark brown apically, light brown in some specimens; fore tibiae dark brown basally to near middle and light brown toward apex; mid tibiae dark brown basally to slightly beyond middle and light brown toward apex; hind tibiae dark brown basally to center with a middle light brown band pattern, and brown pigmented with dark brown apically; tarsus dark brown except last tarsal segment and claws, these light brown. Abdomen: connexival segments: red; unarmed; urosternites red pigmented with brown; ventrally with dark brown intersegmental lines ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 L). Macropterous form: dark brown. Hemelytra: corium and clavus dark brown; hemelytron longer than abdomen; membrane hyaline-brownish.

Distribution: Brazil.

Material examined. Brazil: 1 Ƥ Río de Janeiro: Nova Friburgo, [22°17'S – 42°32'W], I/1946, P. Wygodzinsky Leg., J.C. Elkins det., ( AMNH); 1 Ƥ São Paulo, [23°46'S – 46°38'W], J.C. Elkins det., ( SMNH).

Remarks. Images provided by (AMNH) and (SMNH). It superficially resembles R. costarrisensis sp. nov., but can be differentiated by the posterior lobe of pronotum without longitudinal band pattern.

	Female N=5	Male N=5
	Min Max	Min Max
Total length	10.6 12.3	10.3 11.1
Head length	1.80 2.00	1.76 1.90
Head width	1.05 1.24	1.10 1.24
Anteocular region	0.40 0.56	0.44 0.50
Postocular region	0.44 0.56	0.40 0.50
Interocular region	0.44 0.52	0.48 0.50
Interocellar region	0.30 0.36	0.30 0.36
Pronotum length	1.90 2.24	1.76 2.00
Pronotum width	2.15 2.52	1.92 2.15
Scutellum length	0.55 0.65	0.35 0.70
Scutellum width	0.75 0.87	0.37 0.80
Scutellum posterior process length	0.22 0.35	0.15 0.25
Abdomen width	2.60 2.96	1.55 2.00
Eye length	0.44 0.48	0.45 0.60
Eye width	0.25 0.36	0.30 0.40
Eye height	0.50 0.60	0.55 0.70
Antennal segment 1	3.05 4.12	4.00 4.20
Antennal segment 2	1.24 1.52	0.88 1.05
Antennal segment 3	- 3.20	- 5.55
Antennal segment 4	- -	- 2.15
Rostral segment 1	0.96 1.16	0.90 1.10
Rostral segment 2	0.80 0.96	0.60 0.90
Rostral segment 3	0.28 0.44	0.28 0.45
Head spines length	0.45 0.76	0.45 0.48
Posterior lobe of pronotum discal spines length	0.40 0.92	0.75 0.80
Posterior lobe of pronotum humeral spines length	0.30 0.72	0.45 0.60
Distance between head spines	0.60 0.96	0.70 0.96
Distance between discal spines	1.15 1.36	- -
Distance between discal/humeral spines	1.72 2.00	1.45 1.55
Repipta fuscipes Stål Figs 2, 6, 8–13, 16, Map 3

TABLE 10. Selected measurements (mm.) of Repipta fuscipes Stål.

	Female N=2	Male N=3
	Min Max	Min Max
Total length	18.8 18.9	15.8 16.4
Head length	1.60 3.16	2.55 2.70
Head width	1.56 3.20	1.55 1.80
Anteocular region	1.04 1.08	0.65 0.80
Postocular region	0.60 0.68	0.50 0.55
Interocular region	0.80 0.80	0.60 0.70
Interocellar region	0.40 0.44	0.35 0.45
Pronotum length	3.40 3.52	2.30 2.70
Pronotum width	4.32 4.44	3.10 3.20
Scutellum length	0.62 0.71	0.62 1.21
Scutellum width	0.90 0.90	0.78 1.25
Scutellum posterior process length	0.21 0.25	0.18 0.25
Abdomen width	4.60 4.80	2.25 2.25
Eye length	0.64 0.68	0.60 0.75
Eye width	0.40 0.44	0.45 0.55
Eye height	0.68 0.76	0.70 0.90
Antennal segment 1	5.28 5.84	3.95 5.84
Antennal segment 2	1.96 2.16	- 1.40
Antennal segment 3	- 4.80	- -
Antennal segment 4	- -	- -
Rostral segment 1	1.52 1.56	1.30 1.44
Rostral segment 2	1.16 1.28	0.96 1.20
Rostral segment 3	0.60 0.60	0.45 0.55
Head spines length	- -	- 0.20
Posterior lobe of pronotum discal spines length	0.24 0.48	0.40 1.24
Posterior lobe of pronotum humeral spines length	0.32 0.60	0.25 0.60
Distance between head spines	0.72 0.80	0.60 0.76
Distance between discal spines	1.64 1.76	0.95 1.36
Distance between discal/humeral spines	1.92 2.40	1.25 2.04
Repipta fuscospinosa Stål Figs 2, 5, Map 3

Abbreviations

MLP	Museo de La Plata
ZSM	Bavarian State Collection of Zoology
SMNH	Saskatchewan Museum of Natural History
MZLU	Lund University
FMNH	Field Museum of Natural History
MULU	Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsala
AMNH	American Museum of Natural History

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hemiptera
Family	Reduviidae
Genus	Repipta