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Issue: Vol. 5584 No. 4: 11 Feb. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-02-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1
Page range: 451-481
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Filling in the gaps for assassin bugs: taxonomic notes and new records of Reduviidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Neotropical countries

Instituto de Ciencias Naturales; Universidad Nacional de Colombia; Bogotá; Colombia
Museo de Zoología ‘Alfonso L. Herrera’; Departamento de Biología Evolutiva; Facultad de Ciencias; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM); 04510 Mexico City; Mexico; Grupo de Entomología Universidad de Antioquia (GEUA); Universidad de Antioquia; Medellín; Colombia
Hemiptera Andes genital morphology species distribution

Abstract

Six generic and 17 species level new country records are provided for Reduviidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from various Neotropical countries. New country records: Brontostoma abbas Carpintero, 1980: Colombia; B. colossus (Distant, 1902): Colombia, Ecuador; Pothea jaguaris (Carpintero, 1980): Colombia; P. ventralis (Lepeletier & Serville, 1825): Colombia; Pseudopothea paulai Gil-Santana, 2015: Bolivia, Colombia; Rhiginia immarginata Stål, 1866: Colombia; Cidoria flava Amyot & Serville, 1843: Colombia; Corcia nigricornis Champion, 1899: Colombia; Pirnonota convexicollis Stål, 1859: Honduras, Costa Rica, Bolivia, and Peru; Pselliopus punctipes Amyot and Serville, 1843: Colombia; Repipta lepidula Stål, 1866: Colombia; R. sanguinea Champion, 1899: Colombia; Sosius foliaceus Champion, 1899: Colombia; Zelus championi Zhang & Hart, 2016: Colombia; Z. nigromaculatus Champion, 1899: Colombia; Aradomorpha championi Lent & Wygodzinsky, 1944: Colombia; Peregrinator biannulipes (Montrouzier & Signoret, 1861): Colombia. Detailed locality data from Colombia are provided for Rhiginia bimaculata Breddin, 1914 and R. conspersa Breddin, 1901, previously known only from country level records without more specific localities. To help identify Brontostoma abbas Carpintero, 1980, Repipta lepidula Stål, 1866 and R. sanguinea Champion, 1899, images of the male and/or female genitalia are provided for the first time. Habitus images are provided for all treated species, and additional structural details are illustrated for some of them.

 

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