Repipta mucosa Champion

Martin-Park, Abdiel, Delfín-González, Hugo & Coscarón, María Del Carmen, 2012, Revision of genus Repipta Stål 1859 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae) with new species and distribution data, Zootaxa 3501, pp. 1-54 : 28

Repipta mucosa Champion

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Repipta mucosa ; Champion, 1899:271 [descr.], Panama; Readio, 1927:199 [cit.]; Wygodzinsky, 1949:45 [cat.]; Maldonado, 1990:270 [cat.].

Redescription. — General coloration brown and dark brown. Head: dark brown dorsally and brown laterally; antennifer spines dark brown; antenna I, II and IV dark brown almost black; I usually with a pale band pattern close to apex; III brown pigmented with yellow basally and in male thickened at base; rostrum I brown dorsally and dark brown ventrally; II brown with a red pigmented with brown line ventrally; III dark brown. Pronotum: anterior lobe dark brown with two brown spots, each one next to longitudinal sulcus; anterolateral angles and collar dark brown; posterior lobe brown with an irregular two broad longitudinal dark brown bands beginning in posterior margin of anterior lobe and ending in each discal spines. Scutellum: principal body dark brown pigmented with white; posterior process whitish, acute and flat. Pleura: propleura dark brown, meso-, and metapleura brown; prosterna brown; mesosterna dark brown and metasterna brown. Legs: coxae brown pigmented with yellow and brown basally; trochanters brown; fore-, and mid- femora brown; hind femora light brown; fore tibiae light brown basally to medially and brown apically; mid- tibiae light brown; hind tibiae light pigmented with brown; tarsus brown. Abdomen: connexival segments: light brown; unarmed; urosternites light brown not homogeneously pigmented with brown. Macropterous form: brown. Hemelytra: corium and clavus brown except basally, dark brown; hemelytron slightly longer than abdomen; membrane hyaline-brownish.

Distribution: Panama, USA.

Material examined. USA: 1 3 Texas: Hamlin, [32°53'N – 100°07'W], ( MSME).

Remarks. Images provided by (MSME). No visible traits taken from the original description by Champion (1899). It superficially resembles R. nigrospinosa sp. nov. and R. spinosa , but can be differentiated by the unarmed connexival segments.

Figures

FIGURE 2. General aspect. A, R. ecuadorensis sp. nov., B – C, R. flavicans Amyot & Serville, male (left) and female (right), D, R. fuscospinosa Stål, E – F, R. fuscipes Stål, male (left) and female (right), G, R. hondurensis sp. nov., H, R. lepidula Stål, I, R. mucosa Champion. Arrows refer to character under descriptions / redescriptions. Scale 1 mm.

FIGURE 6. Lateral aspect (A – D, F – L). A – B, R. fuscipes Stål, male (left) and female (right), C, R. hondurensis sp. nov., D, R. lepidula Stål. Ventral aspect. E, R. mucosa Champion, F, R. nigronotata Stål, G, R. nigrospinosa sp. nov., H, R. obscuripes Stål, I, R. paraguayensis sp. nov., J, R. ruficorpus sp. nov., K, R. schaeferi sp. nov., L, R. sexdens (Fabricius). Arrows refer to character under descriptions / redescriptions.