Polauchenia cf. marcapata Wygodzinsky, 1966

Forero, Dimitri, 2006, New records of Reduviidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Colombia and other Neotropical countries, Zootaxa 1107, pp. 1-47 : 11

Polauchenia cf. marcapata Wygodzinsky, 1966

The genus Polauchenia McAtee & Malloch, 1925 , includes five species ( Maldonado 1990). The only examined specimen ( Fig. 21 ) is very close to P. marcapata , but the humeral angles of the pronotum are pointed rather than blunt, and the color pattern of the hemelytra is less marked than in P. marcapata . Since the specimen is in not in a very good condition, additional ones are needed to reaffirm the identification. P. marcapata is known only from the Amazon basin in Peru and Bolivia ( Wygodzinsky 1966). The species listed here and P. protentor (see below) are the first generic record from Colombia.

Material examined: COLOMBIA, 1Ψ, [Cundinamarca], Tena [04º39’N­ 74º2’W, 1380 m], 24­X­1974, C. Vargas / maleza [ UNAB].

Figures

FIGURES 19 – 27. Dorsal and lateral views of Reduviidae species. 19, Phasmatocoris spectrum; 20, Phasmatocoris usingeri; 21, Polauchenia marcapata; 22, Polauchenia protentor; 23, Stenolemus mirabilis, dorsal view; 24, S. mirabilis, lateral view; 25, Empicoris barberi, head and pronotum; 26, Agriocleptes albosparsus; 27, Agriocleptes wygodzinskyi, female paratype. Scale: bar 0.5 mm (25); 2 mm (19 ­ 24, 26 ­ 27).