Racelda robusta Berenger & Gil-Santana, 2005

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 robusta Berenger & Gil-Santana, 2005

Figs 56 , 57

Material examined.

French Guiana, Bélizon, xi.2001, H. Gaspard leg., 2 males (MNRJ) .

Racelda robusta was described based on a male from French Guiana ( Bérenger and Gil-Santana 2005). Gil-Santana et al. (2013) recorded the species from Brazil ( Amazonian region ). They observed that while the holotype had the center of hind lobe of pronotum entirely blackish, the male from Brazil had a less extensive blackish coloration, with a pale portion below the transverse sulcus. In the males from French Guiana examined here, the area below the tranverse sulcus is also pale to some extent, except at medially (Fig. 56 ), suggesting intraspecific rather than geographic variation in the size of this blackish marking .

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).