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Issue: Vol. 4543 No. 3: 8 Jan. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-01-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4543.3.4
Page range: 388–400
Abstract views: 57
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A new species of Pyrrhosphodrus (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) from the Caatinga ecosystem in Brazil, with notes on the genus

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Animal, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
Laboratorio de Entomología, Departamento de Biología, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia.
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Animal, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
Red de Ecoetología, Instituto de Ecología A. C., Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. Centro de Conservação e Manejo de Fauna da Caatinga, Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco, Petrolina, PE, Brazil.
Hemiptera Assassin bug dry forest Harpactorinae Harpactorini Neotropical semi-arid synonymy

Abstract

A new species of Reduviidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Caatinga ecosystem, Pyrrhosphodrus caatingensis Lapischies & Forero sp. nov., is described. The new species is distinguished from its congeners by its overall reddish coloration with black areas; by the black legs, with femora with a subapical yellowish broad ring, tibiae with apical and subapical yellowish annuli; and genital characters. Comments about the biology, feeding habits, habitus, genitalic images, and a distribution map of the new species are given. In addition, the following synonymy is proposed: Pyrrhosphodrus militaris Stål, 1866 = P. theresina (Berg, 1879), syn. nov. A key to separate the known species of Pyrrhosphodrus Stål, 1866 is provided.

 

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