Peirates, Audinet-Serville, 1831

Krüger, Andreas, 2019, Notes on Afrotropical Enicocephalidae and Reduviidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) with emphasis on vehicle-mounted net samples from Liberia, West Africa, Zootaxa 4688 (2), pp. 232-248 : 240

Peirates sp.

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Material examined: TOGO: Lama-Kara near road to Kétao, 9°33′N 1°12′33″W, 15.x.1988, at light, leg. Rolf Garms (1 ♂) .

Remark: Though presenting the same coloration as the above listed female of P. maurus its other characters’ combination does neither match this nor any other known species ( Coscarón, 1997). It shares with P. areatus Miller, 1950 and P. aurigans Distant, 1902 having the ocelli on a tubercle and very similar male genitalia. However, the parameres of P. aurigans are hairless (in P. sp. and P. areatus hairy), while the coloration of the hemelytra in P. areatus differs from the present specimen.

Figures

FIGURE 4. Reduviidae. A, Nagusta sp. near carayoni; B, N. gracilis; C, Oncocephalus subspinosus; D, O. zumpti; E, Peirates maurus; F, Peirates sp., lateral view of pygophore, and parameres; G, Peprius nodulipes; H, Petalocheirus rubiginosus, protibia, head and thorax; I, Pisilus tipuliformis; J, Platychiria murrayi, protibia and dorsal habitus; K, P. ugandensis, protibia and dorsal habitus; L, Parapirates cachani, dorsal habitus, pygophore spine, right and left parameres in lateral views. Scale bars of habitus pictures: A–E, G, I–L, 5 mm.