Repipta nigrospinosa Martin-Park & Coscarón, 2012

Repipta nigrospinosa Martin-Park & Coscarón View in CoL , sp. nov.

Figs 3 View FIGURE 3 , 6 View FIGURE 6 , 8–10 View FIGURE 8 View FIGURE 9 View FIGURE 10 , 16 View FIGURE 16. A , Map 4

Description. — General coloration dark brown and brown. Head: dark brown, almost black; eyes not surpassing margins; antenna I and II dark brown; III and IV light brown, III thickened and reducing gradually toward apex in males; rostrum I dark brown basally and beyond medially, and light brown apically; II dark brown basally without reaching centre, and light brown apically; intersegmental line I and II light brown; III dark brown. Pronotum: dark brown, almost black; submedian carina from anterior margin of posterior lobe to less than half length of posterior lobe. Scutellum: principal body dark brown; posterior process dark brown or yellowish in some specimens, short, acuminate and flat. Pleura: dark brown, almost black; pro-, meso-, and metasterna dark brown, almost black. Legs: coxae and trochanters dark brown, almost black; fore femora dark brown, mid-, and hind femora brown, hind femora with a yellowish band pattern basally; fore tibiae dark brown with two yellowish band patterns: basally and medially; mid- and hind tibiae variable in coloration pattern: first variety, brown with a yellowish band basally; second variety, brown with two yellowish or light brown bands, basally and medially in some specimens; third variety, brown with three bands, basally, medially and apically (this broader, reaching less than half of tibiae); tarsus brown basally and dark brown toward apex or entire dark brown in some specimens. Abdomen: connexival segments: yellowish; segments III–VI armed with a short dark brown or yellowish spines at their outer apical angles, being spine VI longer than basal spines ( Fig. 16 View FIGURE 16. A E); urosternites brown except superior margin to connexivum, this red or light brown in some specimens. Macropterous form: brown. Hemelytra: corium and clavus brown; hemelytron 0.12–0.28 mm, as long as abdomen or slightly shorter; membrane hyaline-brownish. Male genitalia: pygophore: subquadrangular, longer than wide, median process developed, rounded-acute ( Fig. 8 View FIGURE 8 H), parameres: short, curved ( Fig. 9 View FIGURE 9 H). Phallus: articulatory apparatus medium long, quadrangular and narrow, basal plates bridge short and thin, pedicel wide ( Fig. 10 View FIGURE 10 H).

Distribution: Ecuador, Peru.

Material examined. HOLOTYPE, 1 3 Ecuador: Napo, [0°44'S – 78°06'W], 07/III/1983, L. Huggert leg. PARATYPES, 1 3 Peru: Satipo, [11°15'S – 74°38'W], 24/I/1984, L. Huggert leg., ( MZLU); 1 3 Huánuco, [9º55'S – 76º13'W], 17/VI/2003, T. Kothe leg; 2 3 Huánuco: Panagua, Río Llullapichis, [3°52'S – 73°13'W], 06/10/ 2000, 17/IV/2003, T. Kothe, G. Riedel leg., ( ZSM).

Measurements. As in Table 14 View TABLE 14 .

Remarks. It superficially resembles R. lepidula , R. mucosa , and R. spinosa but can be differentiated from R. spinosa and R. mucosa by connexivum armed with short spines in segments III–VI; and from R. lepidula by the lateral band pattern of the abdomen.

Etymology. Named for general dark brown to black body coloration and connexival spines in segments III–VI.