Ploeogaster gesana Kirkaldy, 1909

Gil-Santana, Hélcio R. & Husemann, Martin, 2023, New records of Reduviidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Paraguay, and Peru, Revista Chilena de Entomología (Rev. Chil. Entomol.) 49 (2), pp. 395-412 : 405

Ploeogaster gesana Kirkaldy, 1909

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Material examined. Ploeogaster gesana . 2 males: ECUADOR, Narupa , Napo Province, 1,200 m, 12.ii.1996, Juán Salvador leg. [ MNRJ] .

Ploeogaster gesana was originally described from an unspecified place (“Amérique méridionale” [=South America] ( Lepeletier and Serville 1825). This generalist record of occurrence was repeated by subsequent authors (e.g., Amyot and Serville 1843; Stål 1872; Lethierry and Severin 1896; Wygodzinsky 1949; Maldonado Capriles 1990), until Gil-Santana (2022) that recorded the species from French Guiana. It is noteworthy that P. gesana was described as Reduvius geniculatus Lepeletier & Serville, 1825 . Because this name was preoccupied by Reduvius geniculatus Latreille, 1811 (currently, Panstrongylus geniculatus ; Triatominae ), Kirkaldy (1909) created the new specific name to replace it.

Distribution. Ecuador (new record), French Guiana.

Figures

Figures 20-22. Dorsal view. 20. Ploeogaster gesana Kirkaldy, 1909 from Ecuador, male. Scale: 5.0 mm. 21. Leogorrus immaculatus Champion, 1899 from French Guiana, female. Scale: 3.0 mm. 22. Zelurus tibialis tibialis (Stål, 1860) from Paraguay, male. Scale: 5.0 mm. / Vista dorsal. 20. Ploeogaster gesana Kirkaldy, 1909 de Ecuador, macho. Escala: 5,0 mm. 21. Leogorrus immaculatus Champion, 1899 de Guayana Francesa, hembra. Escalas: 3,0 mm. 22. Zelurus tibialis tibialis (Stål, 1860) de Paraguay, macho. Escala: 5,0 mm.