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No. 602 Fernando Torres-Gil
No full textTranscript (45 pages) of a phone interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Fernando Torres-Gil in Los Angeles on September 18, September 23, and October 15, 2010Torres-Gil (b. 1948) was born in Salinas, California. He was six months old when he contracted polio while living in Castroville, California. He was initially sent to Monterey County General Hospital in Salinas for treatment. His parents were immigrants from Mexico and were agricultural workers in California. He discusses his immediate and extended family, the family dynamics related to his illness, recovery and subsequent surgeries, and the support system developed with his family. He was locally treated by his physician, Dr. Englehorn. When initial treatments proved ineffective, Dr. Englehorn, a Shriner, arranged for Torres-Gil\u27s treatment at Shriners Hospital in San Francisco. His first hospital stay was at age 2 in 1950. He left the hospital after that stay using braces and crutches. He was subsequently hospitalized, for lengthy stays ranging from three to nine months, for various surgeries between 1954 and 1966. He describes these surgeries and his recollections of care and activities while in the hospital. He continues to use braces and crutches. He has never regained use of his right leg. Torres-Gil discusses his schooling, both while in the hospital and through the public school system. He talks about his progress, challenges and accommodation. He earned Associate and Bachelor degrees in California; Master\u27s and Doctorate degrees at Brandeis University. He has served on various councils for three US presidents, including currently on the Council on Aging. The interview concludes with Dr. Torres-Gil discussing the onset of, challenges with and adapting to post-polio syndrome. Interview is part of the Polio Oral History Project. Interviewer: Becky B. Lloy
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No full textAn interview with Gil Evans, apparently included in Music USA #4884-B, broadcast May 16, 1968
Brontostoma rubrovenosum Gil-Santana et al. 2013
No full textBrontostoma rubrovenosum (Stål, 1860) Ectrichodia rubro-venosa Stål (1860: 72) (description). Mindarus rubro-venosus: Stål (1872: 101) (checklist). Ectrichodia rubrovenosa: Walker (1873: 59) (catalog). Mindarus rubrovenosus: Lethierry & Severin (1896: 134) (catalog). Brontostoma rubrovenosum: Wygodzinsky (1949: 22) (catalog), Maldonado (1990: 30) (catalog), Dougherty (1995: 203) (citation, geographical distribution), Gil-Santana et al. (2004: 127) (citation), Gil-Santana et al. (2005: 78) (citation), Gil-Santana et al. (2013: 62, 63, 64) (citation, type material, discussion about synonym). (Brontostoma rubrovenosum in Wygodzinsky (1951: 41, 52), Carpintero (1980: 10) (as rubrovenosus), Gil-Santana et al. (2004: 128) and Gil-Santana et al. (2005: 80) are misidentifications and pertain to B. trux (Stål, 1859)). Brontostoma lilloi Carpintero (1980: 10, 32) (description; dorsal view of the head, schematic drawing), Maldonado (1990: 29) (catalog), Dougherty (1995: 203) (citation, geographical distribution), Bachmann (1999: 215) (catalog of types deposited in MACN), Gil-Santana et al. (2004: 127) (citation), Gil-Santana et al. (2005: 78) (citation). New subjective synonym. Distribution. Bolivia, Brazil, and Argentina. Remarks. The general structure and the overall coloration of Brontostoma rubrovenosum and B. lilloi, syn. nov. (Stål 1860, Carpintero 1980), as observed by examination of their types (Figs. 5–6, 8–9), present enough similarities to con- sider them as belonging to the same species, and therefore, the latter as a junior synonym of the former species. However, differences between their types deserve some comments. While the total length of the female syntype of B. rubrovenosum is 28 mm (Stål 1860), the male holotype of B. lilloi is approximately 24 mm. The eyes and ocelli of the female syntype of B. rubrovenosum (Figs. 5–6) are slightly smaller; its fore femora are somewhat thicker; the blackish markings of the femorotibial joints and apices of tibiae are more extensive; the linear reddish markings of the corium are more extensive; the latero-dorsal margin of the connexivum is more extensively marked with yellow; and the general shape and size of the submedian pairs of pale markings of sternites III–VII are slightly different and more extensive than in the holotype of B. lilloi. Nevertheless, taking into account that similar or analogous differences have been recorded as part of intraspecific variation, including sexual dimorphism, in other species of various ectrichodiine genera, particularly among Brontostoma and Pothea (Wygodzinsky 1951, Dougherty 1995, Gil- Santana & Baena 2009, Gil-Santana et al. 2013, Gil-Santana 2014), they are regarded here as such. Besides the sexual dimorphism in size of the eyes, ocelli and fore femora, recorded in Ectrichodiinae in general (Dougherty 1995), it is noteworthy that a similar variation in the reddish markings of the corium of hemelytra were recorded in B. trux (Gil-Santana et al. 2013) (see e.g. Figs. 1, 3) and Pothea furtadoi Gil-Santana & Costa, 2005 (Gil-Santana 2014), while other variations of the markings on this same region and in the dark markings of the legs were recorded in the aforementioned species and in several other species of Brontostoma (Wygodzinsky 1951, Gil-Santana & Baena 2009, Gil-Santana et al. 2013), P. berengeri Gil-Santana, 2014 and P. jaguaris (Carpintero, 1980) (Gil-Santana 2014). Color variation of the connexivum of B. doughertyae Gil-Santana et al., 2005 was recorded by Gil-Santana & Baena (2009), whilst a considerable range of variation in the markings of the abdominal sternites was recorded in different species of Brontostoma and Pothea (Wygodzinsky 1951, Gil-Santana 2014). The significant intraspecific variation in related ectrichodiine species strongly suggest that similar or analogous differences between the syntype of B. rubrovenosum and the holotype of B. lilloi have no taxonomic value. Both Brontostoma rubrovenosum (Figs. 5–7) and B. alboannulatum (Stål, 1860) (Figs. 12–14) were described based on females from Rio de Janeiro (Stål 1860). Stål (1860: 72) himself suspected that B. alboannulatum might be a variety of B. rubrovenosum (“ An varietas praecedentis.?”). Indeed, most of the color differences between the syntypes of the two species (Stål 1860; Figs. 5–6, 12–13) would be very likely intraspecific variations, similarly as commented above, therefore B. alboannulatum is most probably also conspecific with B. rubrovenosum (Gil-Santana et al. 2013). Even the shorter hemelytra of the female type of B. alboannulatum (Fig. 12) would not be contrary of such an assertion, since continuous wing reduction ranging from submacropterous to apterous is common in females of many species of Ectrichodiinae (Dougherty 1995). However, the abdominal sternites of the type of B. alboannulatum are completely blackish (Fig. 13), without the submedian pair of pale markings recorded in B. rubrovenosum (Figs. 6, 9). In spite of the observation of Wygodzinsky (1951), who recorded that in some specimens of Brontostoma colossus (Distant, 1902) the pale markings on the sternites were absent in very darkened specimens, because of the extreme range of variation observed in this species they can otherwise represent more than one species (Gil-Santana et al. 2013). On the other hand, there is not a well documented variation within the same species of Brontostoma which includes specimens with unicolorous sternites (e.g., entirely blackish as in B. doughertyae) and others with distinct markings. There is the possibility that the sternites could have become entirely darkened because of some chemical alteration along time. It would be in accordance to the observation of Wygodzinsky (1951) that the pale markings were absent in very darkened specimens of B. colossus, in which such a chemical alteration could also have happened and modified the other parts of the body of the insect. But, in the case of the type of B. alboannulatum, the coloration of the remaining parts of the specimen are so bright (generally reddish in head and thorax and yellowish in lateral margin of connexivum) (Figs. 12–13) as in other specimens examined here. Therefore, due to the uncertainty of the significance of the difference observed in the coloration of the sternites, we do not propose a synonym of the two species at this time, but stress that the taxonomic status of the two nominal species is in need to be better evaluated through further studies.Published as part of Gil-Santana, Hélcio R. & Carpintero, Diego L., 2019, Brontostoma lilloi Carpintero, 1980, a junior synonym of B. rubrovenosum (Stål, 1860) (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae), pp. 180-186 in Zootaxa 4614 (1) on pages 182-184, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4614.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/399519
COMO UM ARQUEÓLOGO, ENTRE FRAGMENTOS DE ARQUITETURA, HISTORIA E POESIA, DESENHANDO... | LIKE AN ARCHAEOLOGIST, BETWEEN FRAGMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE, HISTORY, POETRY, AND DRAWING...
No full textUn libro essenziale sui temi del restauro architettonico e del processo progettuale come strumento di ricerca, che comprende disegni di rilievo tratti dai quaderni di progettazione di João Mendes Ribeiro, disegni di ricerca di soluzioni e disegni rigorosi che attraversano le varie scale del progetto.
I testi sono scritti da João Mendes Ribeiro, che affronta il tema del disegno nel processo di ricerca, da João Gomes da Silva (autore del progetto per gli spazi esterni), e da Pedro Alarcão, Nuno Valentim e Barbara Bogoni, con fotografie di diverse fasi del lavoro di José Campos e il coordinamento di Armando Rabaça e Bruno Gil (Eds).
Il testo presenta il lavoro di dell’architetto contemporaneo portoghese Joao Mendes Ribeiro in tema di conservazione e valorizzazione del patrimonio architettonico. La straordinaria capacità interpretativa caratterizza il suo approccio progettuale connota i suoi interventi sulle rovine architettoniche e archeologiche, identificando un metodo progettuale applicato alla storia antica basato sulla conoscenza, sulla ricerca meticolosa e sulla scelta di soluzioni sempre equilibrate, semplici, necessarie, esempi importanti di raffinatezza, di compostezza e di profonda sensibilità poetica
Brontostoma doughertyae Gil-Santana, Lopes, Marques & Jurberg 2005
No full text<i>Brontostoma doughertyae</i> Gil-Santana, Lopes, Marques & Jurberg, 2005 <p>(Figs. 26–35)</p> <p> <i>Brontostoma doughertyae</i> Gil-Santana, Lopes, Marques & Jurberg (2005: 79) (key), (81–90) (description, figures 2–17); Gil-Santana & Baena (2009: 48–52) (description of the female; redescription of the male genitalia; comments on color variation and differences between male and females); Gil-Santana <i>et al</i>. (2013a: 62) (citation); Martins <i>et al</i>. (2016: 346, 358) (citations).</p> <p> <b>Distribution.</b> Brazil, in states of Bahia and Espírito Santo.</p> <p> <i>Brontostoma doughertyae</i> was described based on eight male specimens from the Brazilian states of Bahia and Espírito Santo (Gil-Santana <i>et al</i>. 2005). The holotype and two paratypes deposited in MNRJ were also destroyed in the fire commented above (Escobar 2018). A dorsal photograph of the holotype taken at the time of the description of the species is presented here (Fig. 26). Gil-Santana & Baena (2009) described the female of the species based on two specimens. While describing <i>B. doughertyae</i>, Gil-Santana <i>et al.</i> (2005) recorded the color variation in the femora, which were completely black in the specimens from Espírito Santo, while in the individuals collected in Bahia, the blackish fore femur had a subapical yellowish ring and the middle and hind femora were generally yellowish with variable dark spots. The type series presented the clavus and corium (except its apex) of hemelytron yellow-whitish with reddish markings at the basal and distal corial margins; the basal markings were absent in the specimens from Bahia. The connexivum was described as uniformly yellowish on its external margin (Gil-Santana <i>et al.</i> 2005), while a male from Espírito Santo examined by Gil-Santana & Baena (2009) showed brownish markings on the corium of hemelytra and darkened proximal segments of the connexivum, and the females had the connexivum partly yellowish on external margin or almost entirely darkened, while one female had a large reddish lateral fascia on coria of hemelytra. Another male examined here (Fig. 27) does not have markings on the corium, which is mostly pale whitish. However, a female specimen recently recorded alive presented large reddish lateral fasciae on the coria of hemelytra, and the external margin of connexivum was almost completely pale (Figs. 28–29). Gil-Santana & Baena (2009) stated that there were few differences between males and females of <i>B. doughertyae</i>, highlighting that the scape and basal half of the pedicel were glabrous in the female, the eyes of the males were more prominent, and the abdomen was somewhat larger in the females, as recorded as part of sexual dimorphism in Ectrichodiini (Dougherty 1995). The following diagnosis of the species and remarks on the characteristics of the male genitalia are mainly based on Gil-Santana <i>et al.</i> (2005) and Gil-Santana & Baena (2009), besides examination of genitalia of two additional males, with new figures presented here for a better comparison with <i>B. bahiensis</i>.</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> <i>Brontostoma doughertyae</i> seems closer to <i>B. bahiensis</i>, sharing a similar structure and general blackish coloration and large portions of tibiae yellowish.The coloration of the corium of hemelytron and connexivum is prone to separate them. In <i>B. doughertyae</i>, the corium is almost completely pale yellowish to pale whitish with (or without) a pair of reddish markings on basal and distal portions, or only on the latter, or with a reddish lateral margin (recorded only in females so far), and connexivum almost always uniformly yellowish on its external margin (Figs. 26–29), sometimes partially or almost entirely darkened. In <i>B. bahiensis</i>, the blackish corium is mostly pale whitish on the basal portion, with three contiguous longitudinal stripes united distally by a large pale marking over and extending a little downwards on the portion of the base of membranal veins; the connexivum is pale with distal dark markings (Figs. 1, 5, 7). In the male genitalia, the shape of the struts is quite diverse between these species (Figs. 21, 34); a moderately enlarged and ovoid portion present above the struts in <i>B. doughertyae</i> (Figs. 32, 34) is absent in <i>B. bahiensis</i> (Figs. 18, 21), while median process of endosoma is subrectangular in <i>B. bahiensis</i> and subtriangular at apicolateral portions in <i>B. doughertyae</i> (Figs. 23, 35).</p> <p> <b>Morphological remarks on male terminalia.</b> Segment VIII almost concealed, except by its exposed posteroventral margin, which is somewhat elevated and narrowly larger at lateral portions, although sometimes not visible externally in some individuals; sclerotized on ventral portion, which becomes wider towards posterior margin; dorsal portion membranous and narrower; spiracles on dorsal margin of ventral portion. Pygophore in ventral and lateral views: exposed portion of pygophore subpentagonal and rounded, respectively, integument glabrous, smooth, and shiny; not pigmented in the ventral non-exposed portion; in dorsal view: between anterior and posterior genital openings, a short, moderately wide dorsal (transverse) bridge; membranous areas of posterior genital opening smooth; proctiger subrectangular, posterior margin straight, with an apical row of thin elongated setae; medial process of pygophore sclerotized, subtriangular, short, apical margin more (Fig. 30) or less rounded. Parameres almost imperceptible when genital capsule is <i>in situ</i> or mildly exposed in ventral view, their apices in contact in resting position; symmetrical, elongated; very curved at approximately middle third, with apex truncated; a subapical rounded and somewhat enlarged prominence with a short tooth on its apex; mostly glabrous, with somewhat numerous thin short to moderately setae around the subapical tooth, sometimes forming small tufts; a subapical group of setae on posteroapical margin and a row of somewhat curved, moderately long setae on apical third to fourth of anteroventral margin. Phallus (Figs. 31–32): articulatory apparatus with basal plate extension much shorter than basal plate, the latter with moderately long, narrow and curved basal plate arms (<b>bpa</b>) connected by a elongated narrow basal plate bridge (<b>bpb</b>); dorsal phallothecal sclerite (<b>dps</b>) symmetrical, enlarged to the apex, quite sinuous in center of anterior margin; mid-lateral portions with several grooves; apico-lateral portions mostly smooth, slightly wrinkled laterally, endosomal struts (<b>es</b>) formed by a pair of parallel arms, somewhat larger at basal portion, slightly converging toward apex of <b>dps</b>, united at base and fused at apex, above which a moderately enlarged and ovoid portion (<b>op</b>) (Figs. 32, 34); endosomal wall longitudinally striated on basal portion, ventrally (Fig. 33) and mostly densely rugous by very numerous minute small rounded or spiny protuberances; endosoma with a basal large process (<b>bp</b>), variable in shape, subrectangular to subrounded (Fig. 32) and a flat median process (<b>mp</b>), subtriangular at apicolateral portions and weakly sclerotized (Fig. 35).</p> <p> <b>Material examined.</b> <b>BRAZIL</b>, Espírito Santo, Linhares Municipality, RNV, app. 19°06’S 39°56’’W, II. 1997, leg. J. S. Santos, 2 males (MNRJ).</p> <p> <b>Comments.</b> More specimens will be in need to be examined to ascertain if the conspicuous lateral corial reddish fascia recorded only on females so far (Gil-Santana & Baena 2009; Figs. 28–29) is another sexual dimorphism or merely an inter-individual variation, as well as if the color variation in the femora of specimens from different states recorded by Gil-Santana <i>et al</i>. (2005) are due a geographic variation of <i>B. doughertyae</i>. Otherwise, taking into account that in a live female of <i>B. doughertyae</i> the connexivum was recorded as being completely pale (Figs. 28–29), it is hypothesized here that the presence of a connexivum partially or almost entirely darkened in some specimens (Gil-Santana & Baena 2009) is possibly due to chemical processes inside the abdomen after the fixation of the specimens, as suggested that may occur in specimens of <i>Brontostoma basalis</i> (Stål, 1859) by Gil-Santana (2020b). It is noteworthy that the dissection of the genitalia of different males of <i>B. doughertyae</i>, in successive works, showed an intraspecific variation of the shape of the apical margin of the medial process of pygophore, which showed to be more (Fig. 30) or less (Gil-Santana <i>et al</i>. 2005: fig. 6; Gil-Santana & Baena 2009: fig. 59) rounded.</p> <p> On the other hand, although <i>B. bahiensis</i> and <i>B. doughertyae</i> seem to be different species based on the available scarce material, particularly of the former species, in case more specimens are found in the future, distinctness or eventually the conspecificity of them shall be confirmed or revealed, respectively with other approaches, such as molecular studies.</p>Published as part of <i>Gil-Santana, Hélcio R., 2023, A new species of Brontostoma Kirkaldy, description of the male of Brontostoma bahiensis Gil-Santana, Costa & Marques and notes on Brontostoma doughertyae Gil-Santana et al. (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Ectrichodiinae), pp. 62-86 in Zootaxa 5382 (1)</i> on pages 72-73, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5382.1.9, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/10279822">http://zenodo.org/record/10279822</a>
Naturalization record of Gil, Estanislao, Perez
No full textThe naturalization certificate for Estanislao Perez Gil of Spain. Signed by Judge Joseph B. Wall
Notocyrtus costai Gil-Santana & Forero 2009
No full textNotocyrtus costai Gil-Santana & Forero, 2009 (Figs. 29–33) Notocyrtus costai was described based on a single female from Suriname, currently deposited in MZUSP (Figs. 29–31). The female examined here (Fig. 32–33) seems very similar to the holotype, although some small differences in color are recorded: in the postocular portion of the head the large transverse blackish marking is continuous in the specimen from French Guiana (Fig. 33) and it is interrupted at middle in the female holotype, forming a pair of “large spots in dorsal portion of postocular area” (Gil-Santana & Forero 2009); in the pronotum, the transverse yellow stripe (Gil-Santana & Forero’s “transverse fascia”), between anterior and posterior lobes is somewhat narrower (Fig. 32), and the hind margin of third lobe completely blackish (Fig. 32) (pale yellow in the holotype, Figs. 29–30). Additionally, Gil-Santana & Forero (2009) recorded the total length of the female holotype 11.0 / 13.0 mm, while the female from French Guiana measured 9.5 / 12.5 mm to the tip of abdomen and hemelytra, respectively. Distribution. French Guiana (new record), Suriname. Type material examined. Notocyrtus costai Gil-Santana & Forero, 2009. Holotype: ♀, [SURINAME]: [printed:] Notocyrtus / costai / Gil-Santana & Forero, 2009 // Langaman Kondre, / Marowijne dist. / Suriname, VIII - 1965 / B. Malkin col. [leg.] // [printed red label bordered with black lines:] HOLOTIPO [holotype] (MZUSP). Non-type material examined. FRENCH GUIANA, Bélizon, xi.1997, leg. H. Gaspard, 1 female (MNRJ).Published as part of Gil-Santana, Hélcio R., 2022, New records, taxonomic notes, and the description of a new species of Harpactorinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) from French Guiana, pp. 381-400 in Zootaxa 5105 (3) on page 392, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5105.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/633271
Jere Nash Interview with Gil Carmichael
No full textInterview conducted by author Jere Nash with Gil Carmichael as research for Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. A Republican, Gil Carmichael unsuccessfully ran for a state senate seat in 1967; incumbent U.S. Senator James O. Eastland\u27s seat in 1972; Mississipp governor in 1979; and Lieutenant Governor in 1983. Topics covered include his family; education; military service in World War II and Korea; his automobile dealership and real estate businesses; joining the Republican Party in Mississippi; Rubel Phillips; influence of election commissioners; Prentiss Walker; Charlie Sullivan; Republican National Convention in 1968; Richard Nixon; Ronald Reagan; Hurricane Camille redevelopment commission; James O. Eastland; school desegregation; James Meredith; Robert Clark; Charles Evers; Ellis Bodron; Walter Brown; Clark Reed; Haley Barbour; Spiro Agnew; appointment to Highway Safety Advisory Committee and the Department of Transportation; need for a new Mississippi Constitution; gun control issue; Leon Bramlett; Gerald Ford; Sonny Montgomery; and James Meredith
A study on the optimal PPP model for transport: the case of road and rail in South Korea
No full textIn recent decades the Public Private Partnership (PPP) has been widely regarded as an innovative way to construct transport infrastructures and to improve the quality of service. As the number of PPP cases has increased, many countries have tried to standardise PPP models to minimise the costs of trial and error. South Korea, where 426 PPP projects have been undertaken since 1994, usually preferred the BTO (Build-Transfer-Operate) model for transport. In the BTO model, the private sector recoups its investment by charging end users directly and hence should bear the traffic demand risk. However, the Korean Government shared the demand risk through a minimum revenue guarantee to induce private sector involvement, and this led to many criticisms of the BTO model. Tariffs in the BTO case were much higher than those of public operators, but the Government still had to pay large amounts of guaranteed revenue. Thus, BTL (Build-Transfer-Lease), where the demand risk is on the public sector, has become an alternative model. The BTL is the “service sold to the public sector” model which is similar to the DBFO (Design-Build-Finance-Operate) in the UK. This thesis examines which of the BTO and the BTL PPP models is optimal to save governmental expenditure for transport infrastructures such as road and rail. Appropriate traffic demand risk sharing, which a particularly controversial issue in South Korea, is explored. These research objectives are examined through five case studies: the Incheon Airport Expressway and the Oksan-Ochang Expressway cases for road PPP; the Incheon Airport Railway, the Daegok-Sosa Railway and the Seoul Metro 9 cases for rail PPP. Through a detailed literature review and five case studies, the thesis shows that the optimal PPP model, which is measured by the VFM (Value for Money) assessment, needs to satisfy the interests of public sector, private sector, and end users. Based on these assessments and including these three viewpoints, it is concluded that the optimal PPP model for road can be the BTL where the public sector can save expenditure or reduce the level of tariff. Traffic demand risk for roads is relatively low, so the public sector does not have to transfer it to the private sector with high profit rate. In the case of rail, the limited revenue and high cost make a project difficult to be financially free standing by the BTO model. However, the BTO can be a better option in urban rail if traffic demand risk is shared appropriately
Notocyrtus tibanae Costa & Gil-Santana 2001
No full text<i>Notocyrtus tibanae</i> Costa & Gil-Santana, 2001 <p>(Figs. 35–50)</p> <p> Costa & Gil-Santana (2001) described <i>N. tibanae</i> based on a female and a male from Suriname, presenting only drawings of the male. The specimens from French Guiana (Figs. 35–36) agree well with the original description of this species (Costa & Gil-Santana 2001), although the colors of the female seemed somewhat less expressed (Fig. 35), considered here as likely a result of fading (cf. Zhang <i>et al</i>. 2016) rather than an actual variation.</p> <p> <b>Description of the male genitalia</b> (Figs. 37–50): Pygophore suboval in dorsal and ventral views (Figs. 37, 39), shaped as a helmet in lateral view (Fig. 38); covered by somewhat curved, moderated long, pale, scattered setae on the exposed portion; between anterior and posterior large genital openings, a dorsal (transverse) bridge (<b>db</b>), narrower at median portion (Fig. 37). Parameres (<b>pa</b>) symmetrical, short (Fig. 37); basal (inserted) portion narrower, exposed portion rod-like in shape, slightly curved; apex rounded; glabrous in somewhat less than basal two-thirds; setae becoming longer and stouter towards apex (Fig. 40). Phallus (Figs. 41–43) moderately elongated; articulatory apparatus with long basal plate arms (<b>bpa</b>) (Fig. 44); basal plate bridge (<b>bpb</b>) shorter than basal plate arms (<b>bpa</b>), the latter somewhat curved and more proximate apically (Fig. 44); basal plate extension (<b>bpe</b>) (=pedicel, auct.) moderately short (Figs. 44–45). Dorsal phallothecal sclerite (<b>dps</b>) (Figs. 41–45): sclerotized, basal half larger, expanded laterally; distal half subtriangular, with a median crest, more prominent close to apex, which is rounded; basal foramen with rounded and straight margins laterally and apically, respectively; struts (<b>st</b>) short, with curved arms, largely united at apex and with basomedial curved elongated branches (<b>br</b>). Endosoma wall mostly smooth, minutely, spiny at apex, dorsally to the latter, the endosoma forms a dorsal flap like portion (<b>flp</b>) (Figs. 41–42) with a median (<b>ms</b>) and a lateral pair of elongated thin sclerotizations (<b>ls</b>) (Figs. 41–42, 48–50), the median sclerotization (<b>ms</b>) fusiform (Fig. 48) and each lateral sclerotization (<b>ls</b>) rectangular in shape (Figs. 49–50). Two large processes of endosoma (Figs. 41–43, 46–49): 1 - a basal paired process (<b>bpp</b>), rugose basally and mostly formed by numerous linear parallel curved and twisted sclerotizations (Fig. 46); 2 – a subapical median process (<b>smp</b>), which in dorsal view presents as a paired set of numerous sclerotized suboval elements, spined at their apex, united basally by a smooth portion with faint subparallel linear markings (Fig. 47).</p> <p> <b>Distribution.</b> French Guiana (<b>new record</b>), Suriname.</p> <p> <b>Material examined</b>. <b>FRENCH GUIANA</b>, Bélizon, x, xi.1997, leg. H. Gaspard, 1 male, 1 female (MNRJ).</p>Published as part of <i>Gil-Santana, Hélcio R., 2022, New records, taxonomic notes, and the description of a new species of Harpactorinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) from French Guiana, pp. 381-400 in Zootaxa 5105 (3)</i> on page 394, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5105.3.3, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/6332716">http://zenodo.org/record/6332716</a>
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