Kiskeya palassaina, Weirauch, Christiane & Forero, Dimitri, 2007

Weirauch, Christiane & Forero, Dimitri, 2007, Kiskeya palassaina, new genus and new species of Saicinae (Heteroptera: Reduviidae) from the Dominican Republic, Zootaxa 1468, pp. 57-68 : 63

Kiskeya palassaina , new species

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Holotype: Female: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Santiago: Parque Nacional Armando Bermudes, along road to Mata Grande Station, 19.22194 ° N 70.95722 ° W, 914 m, 22 Jul 2004, E. S. Volschenk and J. Huff, collection permit number 0 1497, hand collected from under stones and logs ( AMNH _PBI 00101882) ( AMNH).

Diagnosis: Recognized by characters listed in the generic diagnosis.

Description: Female: COLORATION (fig. 1): General coloration brown and pale brown, with banded fore legs, whitish coxae, pattern of pale, red, and dark areas on mediotergites and pale and dark dorsal laterotergites. Head: Rather uniformly brown, clypeal spine and bases of genal spines pale brown (figs. 1C, E). Antenna: Brown (figs. 1A–C, E). Labium: Labium brown, slightly paler than head, ventral surface of second segment pale brown (fig. 1E). Thorax: Rather uniformly brown, humeral, scutellar and metanotal spines pale with brown base, pale otherwise (figs. 1A–E). Legs: Coxae and trochanters pale, femora pale brown with three brown bands, base of mid and hind femora slightly darkened, tibiae pale brown with subapical brown band, first tarsomere brown, second and third pale brown, claws brown (figs. 1C–E). Abdomen: Mediotergites pale brown with symmetrical pattern of brown, pale, and red patches; dorsal laterotergites with anterior half dark, posterior pale. Mediosternites pale brown, with seventh sternite slightly darker than remaining sternites; ventral laterotergites with anterior half dark, posterior pale (figs. 1F–H). STRUCTURE: as in generic description.

MEASUREMENTS (holotype and one paratype; in mm): Table 1 .

Etymology: From Greek noun “ palassaina ” meaning “sprinkle, spot, bespatter” for the coloration of the abdominal terga.

Distribution: (fig. 6): Known from the Armando Bermudes National Park, Santiago Province, and one locality in La Vega Province, Dominican Republic.

Additional material examined: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Santiago: Parque Nacional Armando Bermudes, along road to Mata Grande Station, 19.22194 ° N 70.95722 ° W, 914 m, 22 Jul 2004, E. S. Volschenk and J. Huff, 1 female paratype, AMNH_PBI 0 0 190561 (USNM). La Vega: 7.2 mi SE of Constanza, on road to San Jose de Ocoa, 18.84455 ° N 70.67339 ° W, 1524 m, 29 Jul 1991, L. Herman, 7 female paratypes (AMNH_PBI 00102798-AMNH_PBI 00102804) (AMNH).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Kiskeya palassaina, habitus of holotype (A, B) and paratype (C – H) [AMNH _ PBI 00190561], digital microphotographs. A, dorsal view; B, lateral view; C, head and thorax, dorsal view; D, thorax, ventral view; E, head and thorax, lateral view; F – H, abdomen in F, dorsal view, G, ventral view, H, lateral view.

FIGURE 2. Kiskeya palassaina, paratype [AMNH _ PBI 00190561], head and thorax, scanning micrographs. A, head and thorax, dorsal view; B, head and thorax, lateral view; C, anterior part of head, lateral view; D, anterior pronotal lobe, dorsal view; E, meso- and metathorax, dorsal view; F, prosternal process, lateral view; G, meso- and metathorax, lateral view. Abbreviation: sp 1, abdominal spiracle 1.

FIGURE 3. Kiskeya palassaina, paratype [AMNH _ PBI 00190561], leg structures, scanning micrographs. A, foreleg; insets show close-up of armature on femur and tibia. B, tarsus of fore leg, dorsal view; C, second and third tarsomeres of fore leg, showing scopula on ventral surface of third tarsomere; D, close-up of ventral surface of third tarsomere, showing several apically extended tenent setae.

FIGURE 4. Kiskeya palassaina, paratype [AMNH _ PBI 00190561], abdomen, scanning micrographs. A, B, abdomen in A, dorsal view, B, lateral view; C, D, female terminalia in C, dorsal view, D, lateral view. Abbreviations: t 1 / 2 – 10, abdominal tergites; sp 1 – 8, abdominal spiracle; vf 1, first valvifer (eighth segment); vv 3, third valvula (styloids).

FIGURE 5. Kiskeya palassaina, paratype [AMNH _ PBI 00190561], female external genitalia. A, posterior view; B, ventral view with genitalia slightly extended; C, first valvifers and valvulae, ventral view; D, E, second valvifers and valvulae and fused third valvula, D, ventral view, E, lateral view. Abbreviations: t 9, 10, abdominal tergites 9, 10; sp 7, 8, abdominal spiracles 7, 8; vf 1, first valvifer (eighth segment); vv 1, first valvula (eighth segment); vv 3, third valvula (styloids).

FIGURE 6. Collecting sites of Kiskeya palassaina in the Dominican Republic.