Heza aurantia Maldonado, 1976

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 : 391

Heza aurantia Maldonado, 1976

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Heza aurantia was described based on several specimens from Trinidad ( Maldonado 1976), with a recent additional record of the species from Ecuador ( Swanson 2021). The four or five spined connexival segments, the vertical discal spines of hind lobe of pronotum arising from black spots and the general orange color ( Fig. 23 ) are sufficient to diagnose this species ( Maldonado 1976, Swanson 2021).

Distribution. Ecuador, French Guiana (new record), Trinidad.

Material examined. FRENCH GUIANA, Region Kaw , pk 28, attracted by light, 11.i.1997, leg. H. Gaspard, 1 male ( MNRJ) .

Figures

FIGURES 20–26. 20–22, Graptocleptes formosus Miller, 1951, female, 20, dorsal view, scale bar 5.0 mm; 21, head, lateral view, scale bar 0.5 mm; 22, abdomen, ventral view, scale bar 1.0 mm; 23–25, dorsal view, scale bar 5.0 mm, 23, Heza aurantia Maldonado, 1976, male; 24–26, Heza phthinica Swanson, 2021, 24, female, 25–26, male, 26, pygophore in situ with the parameres slightly set apart, posterior view, the arrow points to the medial process of pygophore, scale bar 0.2 mm.