Heza phthinica Swanson, 2021

Gil-Santana, Hélcio R., 2022, New records, taxonomic notes, and the description of a new species of Harpactorinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) from French Guiana, Zootaxa 5105 (3), pp. 381-400 : 391

Heza phthinica Swanson, 2021

( Figs. 24–26 )

The specimens studied here were identified as Heza phthinica following the diagnostic characteristics cited by Swanson (2021) such as the reddish-brown legs ( Figs. 24–25 ) and the median process of the pygophore being tall with a convex apex and concave lateral margins ( Fig. 26 ). The species was described based on three males only, which measured a total length of 17.3 / 18.0 mm and 17.8 / 18.3 mm to the tip of abdomen and hemelytra, respectively ( Swanson 2021). In our specimens the female and the male measured 21.5 / 21.3 mm and 17.0 / 17.2 mm to the tip of abdomen and hemelytra, respectively. Therefore, the dimensions of the males seemed to be within a similar range. On the other hand, except for the larger length of the female, no other difference was noted between the male and female examined here.

Distribution. Brazil, French Guiana ( new record), Peru.

Material examined. FRENCH GUIANA, Region Kaw , pk 28, attracted by light, xii.1997, leg. H. Gaspard, 1 female, 1 male ( MNRJ) .

Figures

FIGURES 20–26. 20–22, Graptocleptes formosus Miller, 1951, female, 20, dorsal view, scale bar 5.0 mm; 21, head, lateral view, scale bar 0.5 mm; 22, abdomen, ventral view, scale bar 1.0 mm; 23–25, dorsal view, scale bar 5.0 mm, 23, Heza aurantia Maldonado, 1976, male; 24–26, Heza phthinica Swanson, 2021, 24, female, 25–26, male, 26, pygophore in situ with the parameres slightly set apart, posterior view, the arrow points to the medial process of pygophore, scale bar 0.2 mm.