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

Corcia nigricornis Champion, 1899

Figs. 8C, D

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) ; 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) ; Córdoba: 1 ♀, Tierralta, Vda. La Oscurana , humid forest, insect net, 16.xi.2006, H. G. Pertuz ( MPUJ _ENT) .

Figures

FIGURE 8. Habitus images of Harpactorini species.A, B. Cidoria flava;A. dorsal view; B. lateral view; C, D. Corcia nigricornis; C. dorsal view; D. lateral view.