Repipta nigrospinosa Martin-Park & Coscarón, sp. nov.

Figs 3, 6, 8–10, 16, Map 4

Description. — General coloration dark brown and brown. Head: dark brown, almost black; eyes not surpassing margins; antenna I and II dark brown; III and IV light brown, III thickened and reducing gradually toward apex in males; rostrum I dark brown basally and beyond medially, and light brown apically; II dark brown basally without reaching centre, and light brown apically; intersegmental line I and II light brown; III dark brown. Pronotum: dark brown, almost black; submedian carina from anterior margin of posterior lobe to less than half length of posterior lobe. Scutellum: principal body dark brown; posterior process dark brown or yellowish in some specimens, short, acuminate and flat. Pleura: dark brown, almost black; pro-, meso-, and metasterna dark brown, almost black. Legs: coxae and trochanters dark brown, almost black; fore femora dark brown, mid-, and hind femora brown, hind femora with a yellowish band pattern basally; fore tibiae dark brown with two yellowish band patterns: basally and medially; mid- and hind tibiae variable in coloration pattern: first variety, brown with a yellowish band basally; second variety, brown with two yellowish or light brown bands, basally and medially in some specimens; third variety, brown with three bands, basally, medially and apically (this broader, reaching less than half of tibiae); tarsus brown basally and dark brown toward apex or entire dark brown in some specimens. Abdomen: connexival segments: yellowish; segments III–VI armed with a short dark brown or yellowish spines at their outer apical angles, being spine VI longer than basal spines (Fig. 16 E); urosternites brown except superior margin to connexivum, this red or light brown in some specimens. Macropterous form: brown. Hemelytra: corium and clavus brown; hemelytron 0.12–0.28 mm, as long as abdomen or slightly shorter; membrane hyaline-brownish. Male genitalia: pygophore: subquadrangular, longer than wide, median process developed, rounded-acute (Fig. 8 H), parameres: short, curved (Fig. 9 H). Phallus: articulatory apparatus medium long, quadrangular and narrow, basal plates bridge short and thin, pedicel wide (Fig. 10 H).

Distribution: Ecuador, Peru.

Material examined. HOLOTYPE, 1 3 Ecuador: Napo, [0°44'S – 78°06'W], 07/III/1983, L. Huggert leg. PARATYPES, 1 3 Peru: Satipo, [11°15'S – 74°38'W], 24/I/1984, L. Huggert leg., (MZLU); 1 3 Huánuco, [9º55'S – 76º13'W], 17/VI/2003, T. Kothe leg; 2 3 Huánuco: Panagua, Río Llullapichis, [3°52'S – 73°13'W], 06/10/ 2000, 17/IV/2003, T. Kothe, G. Riedel leg., (ZSM).

Measurements. As in Table 14.

Remarks. It superficially resembles R. lepidula, R. mucosa, and R. spinosa but can be differentiated from R. spinosa and R. mucosa by connexivum armed with short spines in segments III–VI; and from R. lepidula by the lateral band pattern of the abdomen.

Etymology. Named for general dark brown to black body coloration and connexival spines in segments III–VI.