Pseudopothea paulai Gil-Santana, 2015

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 : 397

Pseudopothea paulai Gil-Santana, 2015

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Material examined. Pseudopothea paulai . ECUADOR. 1 female: [Printed labels:] ECUADOR, / Napo, Coca. / xi. xii. 1982 / G. Onore // Tropical rainforest / general collecting // Brit. Mus. / 1982–246 [ BMNH] .

Pseudopothea paulai was described based on a male (holotype) and a female paratype from Brazil (Gil-Santana 2015). Unfortunately, the male holotype was destroyed on the 2 nd of September 2018, during the fire which destroyed most of the zoological collections, including the entire Heteroptera collection of the MNRJ ( Escobar 2018). The female paratype, however, is deposited in the MZUSP ( Carrenho et al. 2020). The female from Ecuador, deposited in BMNH collection ( Fig. 2 ), is very similar to the paratype (Gil-Santana 2015: fig. 22).

Distribution. Brazil, Ecuador (new record).

Figures

Figures 1-2. Ectrichodiinae species, dorsal view. 1. Pothea jaguaris (Carpintero, 1980) from Peru, male. Scale: 5.0 mm. 2. Pseudopothea paulai Gil-Santana, 2015 from Ecuador, female. Scale: 3.0 mm. / Especies de Ectrichodiinae, vista dorsal. 1. Pothea jaguaris (Carpintero, 1980) de Perú, macho. Escala: 5,0 mm. 2. Pseudopothea paulai Gil-Santana, 2015 de Ecuador, hembra. Escala: 3,0 mm.