Racelda spurca ( Stal , 1860)

Gil-Santana, Helcio R. & Oliveira, Jader, 2022, A new species of Racelda Signoret, with taxonomical notes and a key to the males of the genus (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Ectrichodiinae, Ectrichodiini), ZooKeys 1122, pp. 53-79 : 53

Racelda spurca ( Stal, 1860)

Figs 58-62

Material examined.

Brazil, São Paulo State: RACELDA / Racelda spurca ( Stäl [handwritten] / J.C.M. Carvalho. det. 1991 [printed; except two latter numbers, which were handwritten] // [handwritten label]: 20.XI.1955 / Barueri / K. Lenko leg., 1 male (MNRJ).

Racelda spurca was described based on an unspecified number of male specimens from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Stål (1860, 1872) cited "Mus. Holm." (NHRS) as the depository of the type specimen(s). Currently , there is only one type specimen of R. spurca deposited there (G. Lindberg pers. comm.) (Figs 58-60 ). The possibility that the species was described based on more than one specimen cannot be excluded and, following Art. 73.2 and the Recommendation 73F of the ICZN, this specimen is therefore considered as a syntype .

Some characteristics of a non-type male specimen examined here (Figs 61 , 62 ) are noteworthy, such as the presence of pale veins on the coria of hemelytra (Fig. 61 ) and the longitudinal sulcus of the pronotum, which is clearly interrupted at the level of transverse sulcus (Fig. 62 ) and not continuous along the two lobes.

Figures

Figures 56 - 62. 56, 57 Racelda robusta Berenger & Gil-Santana, 2005, male from French Guiana 56 dorsal view 57 abdomen, ventral view 58 - 62 Racelda spurca (Stal, 1860) 58 - 60 male syntype deposited in NHRS, catalog number NHRS-GULI 000000170, photographed by Gunvi Lindberg, © 2020 Naturhistoriska riksmuseet. Made available by the Swedish Museum of Natural History under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License, CC-BY 4.0, https: // creativecommons. org / licenses / by / 4.0 / legalcode 58 dorsal view, scale bar modified from original 59 ventral view 60 labels 61, 62 male from Brazil, dorsal view 62 distal portion of head and pronotum. Scale bars: 10.0 mm (58); 2.0 mm (57, 61); 1.0 mm (56, 62).