Zelus championi Zhang & Hart, 2016

Forero, Dimitri & Mejía-Soto, Andrés, 2025, Filling in the gaps for assassin bugs: taxonomic notes and new records of Reduviidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Neotropical countries, Zootaxa 5584 (4), pp. 451-481 : 473

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E0232160-9292-4F9A-A87B-BC073E8B9A50

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14853560

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7F7887DA-880E-C469-FF3E-FB4934E10D02

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Plazi

scientific name

Zelus championi Zhang & Hart, 2016
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Zelus championi Zhang & Hart, 2016 View in CoL

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Distribution: This species is known from Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Panama ( Zhang et al. 2016). It is a new species record from Colombia.

Remarks: Finding this species in Colombia fills in the apparent gap in the distribution of this recently described species.The specimen was found in an urban area, part of the metropolitan area of the Aburrá Valley, although riparian vegetation exists nearby in La Doctora creek. The examined specimen was dissected to confirm its identification and agrees with the genitalic morphology for this species ( Zhang et al. 2016).

Examined material: COLOMBIA. Antioquia: 1 ♂, Sabaneta, barrio La Doctora , 6°9ˊ2˝N 75°36ˊ49˝W, 1570 m, garden, manual collecting, 1.v.2010, J. Castro, CEUA 99010 ( CEUA) GoogleMaps .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Reduviidae

SubFamily

Ectrichodiinae

Genus

Zelus

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