Zelus lewisi Zhang & Hart, 2016

Zelus lewisi Zhang & Hart, 2016 View in CoL

( Figs. 36–37 View FIGURES 32–37 )

Zelus lewisi Zhang & Hart View in CoL ( in Zhang et al. 2016: 177 View Cited Treatment –179, 180–181, 341, 344) (description, Figs. 121, a–f, 122–123, key to males, key to females).

Zelus lewisi Zhang & Hart, 2016 View in CoL was recently described from Central America ( Costa Rica and Panama) ( Zhang et al. 2016). Diagnostic characters of this species (Zhang & Hart in Zhang et al. 2016) include: a “large and slender body and the posterior pronotal lobe bearing a pair of tubercles. (…) Females [are] yellowish or reddish with black spots and markings.” Among other characteristics of the female, its total length was recorded as being 22.52–24.06 mm ( 22–25 mm, in their key for separating the species of Zelus View in CoL ) [length of body from clypeus to apex of hemelytron] (Zhang & Hart in Zhang et al. 2016). The female examined here ( Figs. 36–37 View FIGURES 32–37 ) has a total length of 22.1 mm (from clypeus to apex of hemelytron, similarly as recorded by Zhang et al. 2016), a general yellowish coloration, with several black spots and markings and a pair of tubercles on the posterior pronotal lobe ( Figs. 36–37 View FIGURES 32–37 ), matching the diagnosis of this species (Zhang & Hart in Zhang et al. 2016).

The species is recorded for the first time from Ecuador.

Specimen examined. ECUADOR, Esmeraldas, GoogleMaps Tundaloma Lodge, near Calderón   GoogleMaps , 01.18277° N, 078.75259° W ( 01°10’57” N 78°45’09” W), 55 m. a.s.l., 8–9.ii.2014, A. Kury & A. Giupponi leg., 1 female.