Corcia nigricornis Champion, 1899

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 : 465

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1
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scientific name	Corcia nigricornis Champion, 1899
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Corcia nigricornis Champion, 1899 View in CoL

Figs. 8C, D View FIGURE 8

Distribution: This species was only known from Volcán Chiriquí, in Panama ( Champion 1899; Maldonado 1990). The specimens examined here represent a new species record from Colombia.

Remarks: Champion (1899) described two new species of Corcia Stål, 1859 , C. costaricensis Champion, 1899 , and a very similar species, C. nigricornis Champion, 1899 from Costa Rica. Both species have different color patterns but similar thoracic and head morphology. He indicated that C. costaricensis could be a variety of C. nigricornis , being C. nigricornis described from a female and C. costaricensis from a male. Given that all known specimens of C. nigricornis are females, including those examined here, it is indeed possible that these two names correspond to a single, dimorphic species. Sexual dimorphism is also present in C. columbica Stål, 1859 , in which females are yellow with dark bands, whereas males are yellow with a black head. The hypothesis that these two names correspond to a single species should await for additional specimens and natural history observations to be corroborated.

Examined material: COLOMBIA. Ant [ioquia]: 1 ♀, Sonsón, Reserva Cañon del Río Claro 5°53ˊ5.13˝N; 74°51ˊ11.13˝W, 350–400 m, primary forest, manual collecting, 31.viii.2015, A. Mejía, CEUA 98982 ( CEUA) GoogleMaps ; 1 ♀, Rionegro, corr[egimiento] San Antonio de Pereira, Parque las Veraneras , 6°07ˊ48.98˝N 75°22ˊ48˝W, 2126 m, forest, insect net, 10.viii.2011 C. Pérez, CEUA 99235 ( CEUA) GoogleMaps ; Córdoba: 1 ♀, Tierralta, Vda. La Oscurana , humid forest, insect net, 16.xi.2006, H. G. Pertuz ( MPUJ _ENT) .

References

Champion, G. C. (1899) Insecta Rhynchota. Hemiptera-Heteroptera. Vol II. In: Godman, F. D. & Salvin, O. (Eds.), Biologia Centrali Americana. Taylor & Francis, London, pp. 193-304.

Maldonado, J. (1990) Systematic catalogue of the Reduviidae of the World. Caribbean Journal of Science, Special publication No. 1. University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, 694 pp.

Stal, C. (1859) Till kannedomen om Reduvini. Ofversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Forhandlingar, 16, 363-386. [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15963483]