Zelus renardii Kolenati, 1857

Heyden, Torsten van der, 2025, New records of Heteroptera from the Canary Islands (Spain), XVII, Arquivos Entomolóxicos 32, pp. 231-232 : 231

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16952091

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17289510

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AD398789-FFD9-FFB8-FF74-FBF7FD10FAE5

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Zelus renardii Kolenati, 1857
status

 

So far, the invasive Nearctic assessin bug species Zelus renardii Kolenati, 1857 View in CoL (Heteroptera: Reduviidae)

has been reported from the following islands of the Canary archipelago ( Spain): Tenerife ( BAENA & SANTOS, 2021; VAN DER HEYDEN, 2022), Lanzarote ( VAN DER HEYDEN, 2023a), Fuerteventura ( VAN DER HEYDEN, 2023b) and Gran Canaria ( VAN DER HEYDEN, 2023c).

Herein, the first record of Z. renardii on the island of La Gomera is presented: On 01-03-2025, an adult specimen ( Fig. 1 View Fig ) was found in Tecina (coordinates: 28.0347639508, -17.1875558048), located in the municipality of Alajeró at the southern coast of the island GoogleMaps . Five related photos were uploaded to the online database iNaturalist (see here).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Reduviidae

Genus

Zelus

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