Montina sinuosa ( Lepeletier & Serville, 1825 )

Gil-Santana, Hélcio R., 2019, New records, taxonomic notes, and the description of a new species of Reduviidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Ecuador, Zootaxa 4613 (3), pp. 502-520 : 517

Montina sinuosa ( Lepeletier & Serville, 1825)

( Figs. 34–35 )

Reduvius sinuosus Lepeletier & Serville (1825: 277) (original description).

Montina sinuosa: Amyot & Serville (1843: 363) (redescription), Stål (1859: 197; 1872: 73) (citation; catalog), Walker (1873: 91) (catalog), Lethierry & Severin (1896: 195) (catalog), Maldonado (1990: 235) (catalog).

Montina sinuosus: Wygodzinsky (1949: 41) (catalog).

New record: Ecuador.

The specimen examined here ( Figs. 34–35 ) generally agrees well with the short description ( Lepeletier & Serville 1825) and redescription of the species ( Amyot & Serville 1843). However, these authors provided different measurements for this species, without mentioning the sex of their examined specimens. Lepeletier & Serville (1825) mentioned the length of 12 to 14 lines (“lig.”) (approximately 27 to 31.6 mm; taking into account that the “ligne” in France was equivalent to 0.0888 inches; 2,2552 mm), and Amyot & Serville (1843) 24 mm (“Long. 0,024”). The total length of the female from Ecuador ( Fig. 34 ) to the tip of abdomen and hemelytra measured 23 and 27 mm, respectively, which is in accordance with the measurements recorded by the previous authors for this species.

Material examined. Montina sinuosa /( Lepeletier & Serville, 1825) / Gil-Santana det., 18// ECUADOR, prov. Napo (22)/ 36.5 km NE of EL CHACO ,/ Cascadas San Rafael , 1200 m / S 00°06’00’’ W 77°34’51’’ / 29.xi.2006; Fikáček & Skuhrovec //low primary forest on summit of/river gorge, sparse understory/vegetation, large amount/of leaf-litt.//COLLECTIO/NATIONAL MUSEUM/ Praha, Czech Republic (1 female, NMPC) .

Figures

FIGURES 32–37. Figs. 32–33. Montina lobata, dorsal view, scale bar 5.0 mm, 32, female, 33, male. Figs. 34–35. Montina sinuosa, female, 34, dorsal view, scale bar 5.0 mm, 35, abdomen, lateral view, scale bar 2.0 mm. Figs. 36–37. Zelus lewisi, female, dorsal view, 36, scale bar 5.0 mm, 37, head and thorax, scale bar 1.0 mm.