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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2018-09-20
Page range: 194–196
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Corrigenda to Gil-Santana, H.R. 2018. A new species of Phasmatocoris from French Guiana, with short taxonomic notes on two described species and an updated key (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae). Zootaxa 4413 (3): 491–506

Laboratório de Diptera, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Av. Brasil, 4365, 21040-360, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Hemiptera Heteroptera Reduviidae Emesinae

Abstract

An intraspecific variation of the male genitalia of Phasmatocoris papei Gil-Santana, 2018 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae: Emesini), i.e., the absence (holotype) / presence (paratype) of the sclerotization of approximately basal two thirds of the ventral wall of phallosoma, reported by Gil-Santana (2018), was found to be incorrect. A subsequent reexamination of the specimens revealed that the misjudgement was based on a breakage of this structure in the phallus of the holotype. In fact, the ventral wall of phallosoma was completely sclerotized at its basal two-thirds in both specimens and should be considered as a species level character of Ph. papei.

 

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    Gil-Santana, H.R. (2018) A new species of Phasmatocoris from French Guiana, with short taxonomic notes on two described species and an updated key (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae). Zootaxa, 4413 (3), 491–506.
    https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4413.3.4