Neotropical Physoderinae revisited, with description of a new, sexually dimorphic species of Leptophysoderes Weirauch (Hemiptera: Reduviidae)

L. R. DAVRANOGLOU; W. S. HWANG; C. WEIRAUCH

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3963.1.6

Issue: Vol. 3963 No. 1: 25 May 2015

Type: Article

Published: 2015-05-25

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3963.1.6

Page range: 89–99

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**Neotropical Physoderinae revisited, with description of a new, sexually dimorphic species of Leptophysoderes Weirauch (Hemiptera: Reduviidae)**

L. R. DAVRANOGLOU⁺⁻
W. S. HWANG⁺⁻
C. WEIRAUCH⁺⁻

Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, U.K.

Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum and Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117546.

Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, USA.

Assassin bug Physoderinae New World Costa Rica revised genus diagnosis Hemiptera Madagascar

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Abstract

The small reduviid subfamily Physoderinae has the greatest species diversity in the Oriental region and Madagascar. Only the two monotypic genera Cryptophysoderes Wygodzinsky and Maldonado and Leptophysoderes Weirauch are currently known from the Neotropical region. We here describe and document a new, sexually dimorphic species of Physoderinae, Leptophysoderes sarapiqui sp. nov. from Costa Rica. The generic diagnosis of Leptophysoderes is modified to accommodate the new species. Females and immatures of Leptophysoderes are documented for the first time.