Notocyrtus costai Gil-Santana & Forero, 2009

Gil-Santana, Hélcio R., 2022, New records, taxonomic notes, and the description of a new species of Harpactorinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) from French Guiana, Zootaxa 5105 (3), pp. 381-400 : 392

Notocyrtus costai Gil-Santana & Forero, 2009

( Figs. 29–33)

Notocyrtus costai was described based on a single female from Suriname, currently deposited in MZUSP ( Figs. 29–31). The female examined here ( Fig. 32–33) seems very similar to the holotype, although some small differences in color are recorded: in the postocular portion of the head the large transverse blackish marking is continuous in the specimen from French Guiana ( Fig. 33) and it is interrupted at middle in the female holotype, forming a pair of “large spots in dorsal portion of postocular area” ( Gil-Santana & Forero 2009); in the pronotum, the transverse yellow stripe (Gil-Santana & Forero’s “transverse fascia”), between anterior and posterior lobes is somewhat narrower ( Fig. 32), and the hind margin of third lobe completely blackish ( Fig. 32) (pale yellow in the holotype, Figs. 29–30). Additionally, Gil-Santana & Forero (2009) recorded the total length of the female holotype 11.0 / 13.0 mm, while the female from French Guiana measured 9.5 / 12.5 mm to the tip of abdomen and hemelytra, respectively.

Distribution. French Guiana (new record), Suriname.

Type material examined. Notocyrtus costai Gil-Santana & Forero, 2009 . Holotype: ♀, [ SURINAME]: [printed:] Notocyrtus / costai / Gil-Santana & Forero, 2009 // Langaman Kondre, / Marowijne dist. / Suriname, VIII - 1965 / B. Malkin col. [leg.] // [printed red label bordered with black lines:] HOLOTIPO [holotype] ( MZUSP).

Non-type material examined. FRENCH GUIANA, Bélizon , xi.1997, leg. H. Gaspard, 1 female ( MNRJ) .