Rhiginia conspersa Breddin, 1901

Forero, Dimitri & Mejía-Soto, Andrés, 2025, Filling in the gaps for assassin bugs: taxonomic notes and new records of Reduviidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Neotropical countries, Zootaxa 5584 (4), pp. 451-481 : 461-463

Rhiginia conspersa Breddin, 1901

Figs. 7A, B

Distribution: This species is known from Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador ( Dougherty 1995; Gil-Santana 2019; Maldonado 1990). As with other Ectrichodiini species from the Neotropics, Dougherty (1995) did not indicate specific localities from Colombia for R. conspersa , which are provided here.

Remarks: Gil-Santana (2019) presented a dorsal habitus image of the holotype from Ecuador. He also documented a specimen from Panama and noted the variation in the coloration of the connexiva, being a continuous, slightly sinuous, yellow line in the holotype from Ecuador, and clearly banded with an almost semicircular yellow spot on each connexival segment in the specimen from Panama. The examined Colombian specimens have a banded connexival coloration pattern as the Panamanian specimen ( Figs. 7A, B ), in which each connexival segment has the posterior half completely dark, thus interrupting the yellow band. Most observations on iNaturalist of R. conspersa from Ecuador (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=7512&taxon_id=900438) have a nearly continuous yellow line on the margin of the connexiva, thus matching the coloration pattern of the holotype. A single observation from Ecuador (Manabí, reserva Jama-Coaque) exhibit a more undulated continuous yellow line (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/35462859), thus being almost intermediate between the coloration of the holotype —and most of the remaining Ecuadorian specimens—and those from Panama and Colombia.

Examined material: COLOMBIA. Antioquia: 1 ♂, Río Claro, San Luis , 440 m, 6.ix.1994 ( MPUJ _ENT) ; 1 ♂, same data, no date, EFA ( MPUJ _ENT) ; 1 ♂, same data, 9.v.94, Diana Marquez ( MPUJ _ENT) ; Atlántico: 1 ♀, reserva campesina la Montaña , 10.7673889°N 75.0127778°W, 214 m, v.2013, M. C. Román [colecta manual] ( MPUJ _ENT) ; Boyacá: 1 ♀, Puerto Boyacá, Puerto Romero, vereda la Fiebre, quebrada la Fiebre , pitfall trap, 400 m, 11.iii.2000, M. Rocha y estudiantes ( ICN) ; Caldas: 2 ♀♀, Dorada, Guarinocito , 980 m, 15–17.ix.1989, Sanguine, Arce, Arango, Orozco, Higuera ( MPUJ _ENT) ; 1 ♀, La Dorada , 05°27ˊ24˝N 74°40ˊ02˝W, 178 m, 14.iv.2001, grasses, E. Ruiz, K. Caballero, J. Cardena ( UNAB) ; Chocó: 1 ♂, Acandí, Capurganá , [8.635046°N 77.347716°W], en vega de río [= river plain], 31.iii.2009, A. Bernal ( MPUJ _ENT) ; 1 ♀, Acandí, Capurganá, Jardín Botánico del Darién , [8.639755°N 77.350424°W], 60 m, rastrojo [= scrub vegetation], 9.iv.2008, manual collecting, M. Camargo J. Izquierdo ( MPUJ _ENT); 1 nymph, same data, 40 m, 11.x.2007, manual, forest, Angulo Rios ( MPUJ _ENT) ; 1 ♂, Acandí, v[ere]da los Rios, bosque [Capurganá, Bosque camino a los Ríos], 270 m, 26.iv.2007, manual collecting, O. Amaya et al. ( MPUJ _ENT); Unión Panamericana Salero , 05°32ˊ45˝N 76°44ˊ33.3˝W, 115 m, in forest, 16.vi.2001, J. C. Neita ( UNAB) ; 1 ♂, Riosucio, Sautatá, H. Echeverri / PK(I-01084), 12.vi.1978 / ICN029271 ( ICN) ; 1♂, same data, Cacarica / PK(I-01509), 2.viii.1978 / ICN029272 ( ICN) ; 1 ♂, same data, Cacarica / PK(I-01510), 2.viii.1978 / ICN029273 ( ICN) ; 1 ♂, same data, Tilupo / PK 00580, 9.iv.1978 / ICN029274 ( ICN) ; Nariño: 1 ♂, Solahonda , manual collecting at night, 15.ix.2015, estudiantes taxonomia animal ( ICN) ; Tolima: 1 ♂, Mariquita, J. H. Jimenez , 29.viii.1987 ( MPUJ _ENT) ; 1♂, Purificación, El Baura, finca Rivadavia , 03°51ˊ45˝N 74°55ˊ49˝W, 329 m, 14.iv.2001, M. Amado, G. Padilla ( UNAB) ; Valle del Cauca: 1 ♂, Buenaventura, Bajo Calima CF UT [= centro forestal de la Universidad del Tolima, 3.9534°N 76.9902°W, 50 m], M. Pinzon ( MPUJ _ENT) ; 1 ♂, Bajo Calima , 03°55ˊ30˝N 76°29ˊ40˝W, 1485 m, 12.x.1988, M. Arcila ( UNAB) .

Figures

FIGURE 7. Habitus images of Rhiginia species. A, B. R. conspersa; A. male; B. female; C. R. immarginata, male.