Bioacoustics of Repipta hondurensis

Description. — General coloration red and brown. Head: red pigmented with brown except clypeus, buccula and labrum, these brown; antennifer spines of a lighter tone; eyes surpassing inferior margin; antenna I red pigmented with brown; II brown; III brown, thickened at base and reduced gradually toward apex; IV like III but not increased; rostrum I red, intersegmental segment brown in some specimens; II and III brown; all rostral segments with a ventral longitudinal brown line. Pronotum: red pigmented with brown; submedian carina beginning in middle of anterior lobe and reaching each discal spines of posterior lobe, covered with short hairs; humeral and discal spines brown basally and dark brown toward apex; posterior margin brown. Scutellum: principal body red; lateral edges brown; posterior process light brown or red in some specimens, short, acute and rounded. Pleura: red pigmented with brown; mesopleuron with two pale spots on posterior margin reaching metapleuron; prosterna light brown except stridulatory sulcus, this red pigmented with brown; meso-, and metasterna light brown. Legs: coxae red pigmented with brown, inferior margin light brown, trochanters red pigmented with brown, fore femora red pigmented with brown; mid-, and hind femora light brown from base to near middle and red pigmented with brown apically; fore tibiae basally to medially red pigmented with brown and light brown apically; mid- tibiae basally red pigmented with brown, and light brown apically; hind tibiae red pigmented with brown basally, near center, and light brown apically; tarsus brown. Abdomen: connexival segments: light brown; urosternites light brown; unarmed. Macropterous form: light brown or brown in some specimens. Hemelytra: corium red pigmented with brown or brown in some specimens, clavus light brown pigmented with brown; hemelytron 2.08–2.60 mm longer than abdomen; membrane hyaline-brownish. Male genitalia: pygophore: ovoid, longer than wide, distally with abundant long hairs ( Fig. 8 F), parameres: short, straight, distally brown and with a few long hairs ventrally ( Fig. 9 F) Phallus: articulatory apparatus long, quadrangular, basal plate bridge long and thin, pedicel wide ( Fig. 10 F).