Parabelminus yurupucu Lent & Wygodzinsky, 1979

Gil-Santana, Hélcio R. & Galvão, Cleber, 2013, Description of the male genitalia of Belminus rugulosus Stål and Belminus corredori Galvão & Angulo, and comments on the holotype of Parabelminus yurupucu Lent & Wygodzinsky (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae: Bolboderini), Zootaxa 3746 (4), pp. 587-596 : 592-593

Parabelminus yurupucu Lent & Wygodzinsky, 1979

While studying specimens of Bolboderini in the CTIOC, a female specimen of P. yurupucu that was labeled as holotype (Figs. 33–36), from “Irara, F. Durão (…)”, collected in 1951, was found (Fig. 34). A specimen with the same data was cited as a paratype by Lent & Wygodzinsky (1979). These authors also reported that the holotype of this species was a female, and that this along with other paratypes, were all from “São Felipe, Fazenda Velha (…),” and were collected in 1974 (Lent & Wygodzinsky 1979, p. 455). On the other hand, on the same page, just above this information, their figure of the holotype (“Fig. 312”) is very similar to the specimen labeled as the holotype in the CTIOC. In fact, although this latter specimen was found with the head, pronotum, and forelegs separated from the remainder of the thorax and abdomen (Figs. 35–36), a comparison of the position of the legs, especially the fore pair, and the position of the wings in relation to the abdomen, with Lent & Wygodzinsky’s Fig. 312, leads us to a belief that this is probably the specimen photographed as the holotype.

MATERIAL EXAMINED: 1 female: BRAZIL, Ba[hia], Salvador, Irara, F. Durão, L.C. Mendonça col. [leg.], 29.X.1951, I. S. P. / “ Parabelminus yurupucu Lent & Wygod. ”, Wygod. & H. LENT det. / “ Parabelminus yurupucu L. & W.”, Lent & Wygodzinsky det. / N. 2140, HEMIPTERA , Inst. Oswaldo Cruz / “ HOLOTYPE ” [Red label], [CTIOC].

PLATE 6. Figs. 28–32, Belminus rugulosus , male genitalia, dorsal view, 28, articulatory apparatus, basal portion, 29, pedicel and gonopore processes, 30–31, dorsal phalloteca plate and struts, 31, apical portion, the arrow points to median distal process, 32, median distal process.