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7F7887DA8819C47DFF3EF98C33C70C3A.text	7F7887DA8819C47DFF3EF98C33C70C3A.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Brontostoma abbas Carpintero 1980	<div><p>Brontostoma abbas Carpintero, 1980</p><p>Figs. 1A–D, 2A–C</p><p>Distribution: Previously known only from Venezuela (Carpintero 1980; Maldonado 1990). It is a new species record from Colombia.</p><p>Remarks: This species was only known from its original description (Carpintero 1980). Carpintero (1980) did not provide any habitus images of the taxa described by him, therefore we are providing images of both a macropterous male (Figs. 1A, B) and a brachypterous female (Fig. 1C). The examined specimens differ from the male holotype in having only the lateral areas of the posterior lobe of the pronotum reddish, whereas the holotype (Fig. 1D) has almost all the posterior lobe reddish except for a small anteromedial, rounded black area, similar to what is found in the examined brachypterous female (Fig. 1C). The brachypterous females have a coloration pattern on the forewings similar to those of males, in which most of the posterior area of the corium and the basal area of the clavus are reddish (Fig. 1C). This color pattern on the forewing of brachypterous specimens cannot be confused with that of the more commonly found B. basalis (Stål, 1859), in which most of the forewing is reddish (Gil-Santana 2020), not only the posterior margin of the corium as in B. abbas . Furthermore, B. abbas can be differentiated from B. basalis by having the clavus reddish on its basalmost area, with the remaining area dark, and on the apical half the adjacent corial area dark as well. In B. basalis, these claval and corial areas are yellowish (Gil-Santana 2020). In addition, the corium of B. abbas has a broad reddish band on its posterior portion with the remainder corial area black (Figs. 1A–C), a corial color pattern not found in any of the color variations of B. basalis . Another similarly colored Brontostoma species is B. infensum Wygodzinsky, 1951, known from Argentina (and probably also from Peru and Brazil, see Gil-Santana 2020). Bronstostoma abbas shares with B. infensum the apical claval and adjacent corial area dark, but in B. abbas, the ventral abdominal markings are well defined, not irregular as in B. infensum . The corium in B. infensum is mostly red, different from the strongly bicolorous corium of B. abbas .</p><p>These color differences among B. abbas, B. basalis, and B. infensum are congruent with their male genitalic structure. Gil-Santana and collaborators have shown that in Brontostoma species the genitalia possess good characters for species delimitation (e.g., Gil-Santana 2020, 2023; Gil-Santana et al. 2021; Gil-Santana &amp; Baena 2009). These three species are more similar among them than to other Brontostoma species because of the shape of the medial process of the endosoma (mp), which is a broad U-shaped sclerite (Figs. 2B, C). Of these, B. abbas is most similar to B. basalis because the apices of the parameres are close together in repose, the medial process of the pygophore (mpp) is not visible in ventral view, the dorsal phallothecal sclerite (dps) is deeply emarginate apically, and the medial margin of the apical portion of the endosomal struts is sinuate (Gil-Santana 2020). These two species can be distinguished by the shape of the mpp and the structure of the dps. In B. basalis, the mpp is more rounded and narrower, whereas in B. abbas it is slightly flattened dorsally and wider (Fig. 2A, arrow). In B. basalis the dps has a lateral ventral fold which is strongly curved outward on its basal half, whereas in B. abbas the ventral fold is not curved outwards (Fig. 2B). In addition, the dps of B. basalis is recurved apically, whereas in B. abbas is flattened apically (Fig. 2C, arrow).</p><p>Carpintero (1980) described B. abbas based on a single specimen from Acarigua, in Portuguesa State, Venezuela. The examined specimens from Colombia suggest that this species is commonly found in the biogeographic region denominated the Sabana province (Morrone 2017), what is called “Los Llanos” in Venezuela and Colombia, where the holotype of B. abbas was described from. The single examined locality in the Magdalena Valley (Puerto Boyacá, Boyacá) suggests that this species could be nonetheless found in other areas as well, although evidence for this is scant.</p><p>Examined material: Holotype. Venezuela: 1 ♂, Portuguesa, Acarigua, R.U. Carcavallo (MACN) [photograph examined, courtesy of H.R. Gil-Santana].</p><p>Other examined specimens: COLOMBIA. Boyacá: 1 ♂, Puerto Boyacá, laguna P’Agagua [Cienaga Palagua], 10.xi.1976, H. Bernal, ICN029255 (ICN) ; 1♀, San Luis de Gaceno, 04°49ˊN 73°10ˊW, 281 m, 13.iv.1995, X. Espitia (UNAB) ; Casanare: 1 ♂, Aguazul, v[ere]da Ag Lindo [Agualinda], f[in]ca Caño Negro, 05°13ˊN 72°85ˊW, 447 m, entomological net, 14.vii.2012, C. Pimentel (UNAB) ; 1 ♂, caserío indígena Mochuelo, selva de galería [=gallery forest], 100 m, F. Ortiz, ICN029253 (ICN) ; 1♂, Paz de Ariporo, 05°33ˊN 71°55ˊW, 340 m, 8.iv.1998, S. Torres (UNAB) ; Cundinamarca: 1 ♂, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-74.33972&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=4.999167" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -74.33972/lat 4.999167)">La Vega</a>, 04°59ˊ57˝N 74°20ˊ23˝W, 1230 m, 6.iv.1997, E. Bastias (UNAB) ; 1 ♀, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-73.2275&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=4.4416666" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -73.2275/lat 4.4416666)">Medina</a>, v[ereda] de palo, 4°26ˊ30˝N 73°13ˊ39˝W, 1420 m, 10.v.2019, C. Sarmiento y Taxonomia Animal, manual collecting (ICN) ; 1♂, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-74.16167&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=5.1325" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -74.16167/lat 5.1325)">Pacho</a>, 05°07ˊ57˝N 74°09ˊ42˝W, 1798 m, may 1999, A. Vergara (UNAB) ; Meta: 1 ♂, alto Menegua, P[uer]to López, 17.iv.1992, J. C. Ochoa (MPUJ _ ENT) ; 1 ♂, Apiay, 11.ix.1976, Gerardo Chavarro, ICN029257 (ICN) ; 1 ♂, Cumaral, f[in]ca <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-73.494026&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=4.2713337" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -73.494026/lat 4.2713337)">Agualinda</a>, 04°16ˊ16.8˝N 73°29ˊ38.5˝W, 452 m, 30.ix.2017, manual collecting, L. Buitrago (UNAB) ; 1 ♂, Cumaral, Veracruz, 04°17ˊN 73°33ˊW, 240 m, 18.iv.1992, R. Yepes (UNAB) ; 1 ♂, Humacitas, pantalla [=screen] 9-11, 7.x.1971, Isabel de Arévalo, ICN028768 (ICN); 1 ♂, Puerto Lleras, 14.vi.1970, F. Sarmiento, ICN029256 (ICN) ; 1 ♂, Puerto López, v[ere]da La Libertad km 21, 04°05ˊN 72°58ˊW, 184 m, 17.iv.2000, O. Parra (UNAB) ; 1 ♂, Remolinos, 300 m, 19.iii.1993, E. Garzón (MPUJ _ ENT); 1 brachypterous ♀, Remolinos, Cafam Llanos, 24.iii.1996 (MPUJ _ ENT) ; Vichada: 1 ♂, Gaviotas, 180 m, 1.vii.1995, F. Cortéz, ICN 036188 (ICN) ; 1 ♂, Gaviotas, 168 m, 12.v.1985, O. M. Moreno, ICN 029254 (ICN) .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7F7887DA8819C47DFF3EF98C33C70C3A	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Forero, Dimitri;Mejía-Soto, Andrés	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): 451-481, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1
7F7887DA881CC47BFF3EFF2C369E08BD.text	7F7887DA881CC47BFF3EFF2C369E08BD.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Brontostoma colossus (Distant 1902)	<div><p>Brontostoma colossus (Distant, 1902)</p><p>Figs. 1E, F</p><p>Distribution: This species was originally described from Paraguay (Distant 1902), and additionally recorded from Argentina, Bolivia, and Brazil (Dougherty 1995; Maldonado 1990; Wygodzinsky 1951). It is a new record from Colombia and Ecuador.</p><p>Remarks: Wygodzinsky (1951) indicated the highly variable color pattern of this species, not only across its known distributional range, but also within a single locality. Nonetheless, the yellowish longitudinal markings on the corium, usually with transverse ones connecting the longitudinal ones, is indicative of this species. One aspect of the examined specimen not agreeing with the short notes of Wygodzinsky (1951) is that the all the specimens examined by him—mostly from Argentina —had a uniformly darkened forewing membrane. In the examined specimen here (Fig. 1E), as well as one specimen from Ecuador (from iNaturalist, see below), the membrane is variegated with pale brown markings. Other specimens of B. colossus from the northern portion of its distribution (e.g., French Guiana: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/178448936; Brazil, [Amazonas]: https://www.inaturalist.org/ observations/178448936, [Pará]: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/143728928, [Mato Grosso]: https://www. inaturalist.org/observations/143569846), have the membrane with a few pale brown small and localized areas, in contrast to the strongly variegated brown areas of the specimens from Colombia and Ecuador. We interpret this as intraspecific variation of the northern populations of B. colossus . Clearly, better collecting efforts in these areas, and study of the male genitalia, will help elucidate the variation and limits of this species.</p><p>Examined material: COLOMBIA. Guaviare: 1 ♀, San Jose del Guaviare, playa <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-72.709&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=2.5722" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -72.709/lat 2.5722)">Güio</a> [02.5722°N 72.7090°W, 180 m], x.2013, E. Flórez y estudiantes de Taxonomia Animal, ICN103360 (ICN) . ECUADOR. Napo: adult, sex unknown, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-77.60129&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=0.675693" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -77.60129/lat 0.675693)">Wild Sumaco Lodge</a>, 0.675693°N 77.601286°W, Emily Hjalmarson, https://www.inaturalist.org/ observations/149450579 .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7F7887DA881CC47BFF3EFF2C369E08BD	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Forero, Dimitri;Mejía-Soto, Andrés	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): 451-481, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1
7F7887DA881DC47AFF3EFF2C35CA09B9.text	7F7887DA881DC47AFF3EFF2C35CA09B9.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Pothea jaguaris (Carpintero 1980)	<div><p>Pothea jaguaris (Carpintero, 1980)</p><p>Fig. 3A</p><p>Distribution: Originally described from Bolivia (Carpintero 1980), with additional records from Brazil and French Guiana (Gil-Santana 2007, 2014). It is a new species record from Colombia.</p><p>Remarks: Carpintero (1980) described Parapothea to accommodate P. jaguaris, but Parapothea is now regarded a synonym of Pothea Amyot &amp; Serville, 1843 (Dougherty 1995; Gil-Santana 2014). Gil-Santana (2014) redescribed P. jaguaris, documenting the color pattern and morphological variability of this species across its distributional range. The examined specimen (Fig. 2A), as well as the images from iNaturalist, fall within the color variability range of P. jaguaris, and thus, the species is recorded for the first time from Colombia. Forero (2006) recorded two specimens similar to P. jaguaris (as Parapothea). A reexamination of those specimens showed that they are not conspecific with P. jaguaris but they represent an undescribed species.</p><p>Examined material: COLOMBIA. Antioquia: 1 ♂, Gomes Plata, vereda Vega Botero, 900 m, 21.i.2012, insect net, forest, E. Rios, M. García (MEFLG) . Cundinamarca: 1 ♀, Nocaima, 05.0694°N 74.3803°W, Oscar Enciso, https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/146251539; 1 ♀, La Vega, 04.9989°N 74.3596°W, David Steve, https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/187826859.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7F7887DA881DC47AFF3EFF2C35CA09B9	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Forero, Dimitri;Mejía-Soto, Andrés	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): 451-481, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1
7F7887DA881DC47AFF3EFCAC35650D76.text	7F7887DA881DC47AFF3EFCAC35650D76.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Pothea ventralis (Lepeletier & Serville 1825)	<div><p>Pothea ventralis (Lepeletier &amp; Serville, 1825)</p><p>Figs. 3B, C</p><p>Distribution: Described from French Guiana (Cayenne), and recorded subsequently from Guyana, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay, and Argentina (Dougherty 1995; Maldonado 1990). It is a new record from Colombia.</p><p>Remarks: Amyot &amp; Serville (1843) proposed the genus Pothea to include two species, P. frontalis (Lepeletier &amp; Serville, 1825) and P. ventralis . Wygodzinsky (1949a) subsequently designated P. ventralis as the type species of Pothea . Despite being the type species of the genus, surprisingly very little has been documented for this species; for instance, Forthman &amp; Weirauch (2016) illustrated the limited sexual dimorphism of this species, but not much else has been documented. Pothea ventralis is very similar to P. haglundii Stål, 1872 in their body coloration, particularly the black thoracic sternites and pleurites, but can be differentiated by the relatively small ocelli of P. ventralis (Dougherty 1980) . The examined females (Fig. 2B) agree with Dougherty (1995) in its head structure. Carpintero (1978) showed that the median process of the pygophore of the male genitalia was different among very similar species of Pothea . Further studies should document the male genitalia of P. ventralis to help in its delimitation.</p><p>The record of Fracker and Bruner (1924) of P. ventralis from Peru is probably a misidentification. They described the connexivum as having the first five segments black and the rest red, thus, probably corresponding to some other species of Pothea .</p><p>Examined material: COLOMBIA. Cund[inamarca]: 1 ♀, Tame, Olga V. Castaño, 5.viii.1970, ICN 029270 (ICN); Meta: 1 ♀, Acacias, vereda la Esmeralda, centro agroturistico Araguaney, 17.iv.2004, E. Florez y estudiantes sistematica animal, ICN 037890 (ICN) .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7F7887DA881DC47AFF3EFCAC35650D76	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Forero, Dimitri;Mejía-Soto, Andrés	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): 451-481, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1
7F7887DA881DC47AFF3EF9F0339D0C86.text	7F7887DA881DC47AFF3EF9F0339D0C86.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Pseudopothea paulai Gil-Santana 2015	<div><p>Pseudopothea paulai Gil-Santana, 2015</p><p>Fig. 3D</p><p>Distribution: Described originally from the states of Ceará (Carquejo) and Amazonas (Benjamin Constant) in Brazil (Gil-Santana 2015), and recently recorded from Ecuador (Gil-Santana &amp; Husemann 2023). It represents a new generic and species record from Bolivia and Colombia.</p><p>Remarks: The examined specimens agree perfectly with the description and photos of Gil-Santana (2015) for this species. Based on the known distribution, this species seems to be found from the Amazon basin in the north to the Yungas in Bolivia in the south. All specimens examined here were collected in Malaise traps.</p><p>Examined material: BOLIVIA. Santa Cruz: 1 ♂, refugio los Volcanes 18 06ˊS 63 36ˊW, 1000 m, 25- 30.x.2007, F Romero, Malaise (UCR) . COLOMBIA. Vaupés: 1 ♂, Estación biológica Mosiro-Itajura (Caparú), 1°4ˊS 69°31ˊW, 60 m, Malaise #M, 4392, 05-15.iii.2004, J. Pinzon / IAvH-E 175341 (IAVH) .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7F7887DA881DC47AFF3EF9F0339D0C86	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Forero, Dimitri;Mejía-Soto, Andrés	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): 451-481, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1
7F7887DA881FC475FF3EFF2C339A09F2.text	7F7887DA881FC475FF3EFF2C339A09F2.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Rhiginia bimaculata Breddin 1914	<div><p>Rhiginia bimaculata Breddin, 1914</p><p>Figs. 4–6</p><p>Distribution: This species is known from Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador (Dougherty 1995; Maldonado 1990). It is the first time that precise localities from Colombia are provided.</p><p>Remarks: Rhiginia bimaculata is a widespread species in Central and South America (Dougherty 1995; Forthman &amp; Gil-Santana 2021; Maldonado 1990) and seems to be commonly found in Colombia from sea level up to 1430 meters. Dougherty (1995) simply mentioned countries of occurrence but did not list specific localities for the species listed. We are providing accurate locality data for R. bimaculata . Forthman &amp; Gil-Santana (2021) mentioned that species of the cruciata -group, to which R. bimaculata is assigned, are uniform in genitalic structure, and thus not useful for species delimitation. Given that species in this group have been delimited mostly using coloration patterns, they called for a more thorough documentation of structural attributes, in particular head and pronotum. In the case of R. bimaculata, given the limited number of specimens examined by them, one male and one female, color variation and structural details of additional specimens of both sexes are provided here.</p><p>The documented structures and coloration reinforce the ideas of Forthman &amp; Gil-Santana (2021) about the species limits of R. bimaculata . After having examined a large series of R. bimaculata, the color variation is minimal (Fig. 4). The areas varying are the posterior margin of the pronotum, which can vary from black to reddish, and the submedial areas on the transverse sulcus, which can vary from reddish to having a pair of black subtriangular markings (Fig. 4A, C). Rhiginia bimaculata can be differentiated from R. nicholsae Forthman &amp; Gil-Santana, 2021 because the abdominal sternites are entirely black (Fig. 4B, D), whereas in R. nicholsae each sternite has a yellowish or reddish marking on its lateral area next to the connexivum, and a pale, irregular area medially (see figures in Forthman &amp; Gil-Santana 2021). In addition, the connexivum is yellow, narrower, and restricted to the non-rugose areas of each dorsal laterotergite in R. bimaculata (Fig. 6C), whereas it is reddish, wider, and extending medially into the rugose areas of the laterotergites in R. nicholsae . The yellow band on the connexivum is usually wide in R. bimaculata (Figs. 4C, 6C), but there are a few specimens (females) in which the yellow band on the dorsal portion of the connexivum is much narrower. Nonetheless, the pattern of having a dorsal and ventral yellow margin on the connexivum seems to be constant. The structure of the head, with a slightly convex frons, the ocelli separated by the diameter of about one ocellus (Figs. 5A, B), and in lateral view occupying about two thirds of the ocellar tubercle (Figs. 5C, D), as well as the structure of the pronotum (Figs. 5E, F), are constant in the examined material and fit the description of Forthman &amp; Gil-Santana (2021). The total length of a few specimens measured ranged between 14.4–15.97 mm (three males) and 15.95–18.06 mm (four females), being the males of R. bimaculata smaller than in R. nicholsae (16.8–19.5, Forthman &amp; Gil-Santana 2021). In R. bimaculata the abdominal sternite II is rugose in both sexes (Figs. 6A, B), but not with longitudinal ridges as indicated by Forthman &amp; Gil-Santana (2021). All other characters that characterize R. nicholsae (Forthman &amp; Gil-Santana 2021) are not present in R. bimaculata . All these suggest that both coloration pattern and morphological characters can distinguish R. bimaculata from other species of the cruciata -group.</p><p>Examined material: COLOMBIA. [Antioquia]: 2 ♂♂, CO05 Apartado, via a Carepa, parque de los encuentros, 30 m, rastrojo [= scrub vegetation], manual collecting, 24–27.xi.2004, Velez y Grisales / MEPB 7703 / MEPB 7641 [MEPB] ; Bolívar: 1 ♂, Zambrano, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-74.912224&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=9.63" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -74.912224/lat 9.63)">Hda. Monterrey</a>, 70 m, 9°37ˊ48˝N 74°54ˊ44˝W, F. Fernández &amp; G. Ulloa / Malaise #6 lata suelo / ICN036191 (ICN) ; Chocó: 1 ♂, costa Pacifico, Richter, vi.1950 / ICN 029286 (ICN) ; 1 ♂, PNN <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-77.3588&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=6.0155277" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -77.3588/lat 6.0155277)">Utría</a>, casa guardaparques, 06°00ˊ55.9˝N 77°21ˊ31.7˝W, 15.viii.2017, 5 m, L. Prada &amp; S. Vargas / MPUJ_ ENT0054355 (MPUJ _ENT) ; 1 ♀, Acandí, Capurganá, vereda los Pinos, bosque, 250 m, 26.iv.2007, 16:00 hrs, C. Castro (MPUJ _ENT) ; 1 ♂, Acandí, Capurganá, jardín botánico del Darién, 40m, 10 oct 2007, zarandeo [= plant beating], 8–9 hr, soleado [= sunny], C. Latorre (MPUJ _ENT) ; Boyacá: 1 ♀, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-74.18889&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=5.6597223" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -74.18889/lat 5.6597223)">Otanche</a>, 05°39ˊ35˝N 74°11ˊ20˝W, 1050 m, 7.viii.1992, Contreras, Neira (UNAB) ; Cundinamarca: 1 ♂, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-74.542496&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=4.875278" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -74.542496/lat 4.875278)">Bituima</a>, 04°52ˊ31˝N 74°32ˊ33˝W, 1412 m, 19.x.1989, C. Galindo (UNAB) ; 1 ♂, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-73.81639&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=4.227778" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -73.81639/lat 4.227778)">Guayabetal</a>, 04°13ˊ40˝N 73°48ˊ59˝W, 1200 m, 17.v.1969, S. Martinez (UNAB) ; 1 ♀, La Esperanza, El Ocaso, G. de Pinzón, 12.x.1977 / ICN029285 (ICN) ; 1 ♂, Mesitas, Martinez, 5.ix.1998, A. Bautista, A. Bohorquez (UNAB) ; 1 ♂, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-74.63611&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=4.461111" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -74.63611/lat 4.461111)">Tocaima</a>, 04°27ˊ40˝N 74°38ˊ10˝W, 400 m, 21.ix.1994, A. Torres (UNAB) ; Mag[dalena]: 1 ♂, Parque Tayrona, C. Kugler / Pueblito —limite sur 210–360 m, 2.iv.1977 / IAVH-E 188407 (IAVH) ; 1 ♂, Santa Marta, vereda Mosquito, reserva estación biológica <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-74.1665&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=11.1739" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -74.1665/lat 11.1739)">Jaguar del Carrizal</a>, 11.1739°N 74.1665°W, 250 m, iv–vi.2021, M. P. Camelo / MPUJ_ENT0075885 (MPUJ _ENT) . Nariño: 1 ♂, Tumaco, iii.2016 (ICN) ; Quindio: 1 ♀, Filandia, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-75.68237&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=4.71346" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -75.68237/lat 4.71346)">rio Barbas</a>, ~ 1.1km NNW de Filandia, 4.71346°N 75.68237°W, 1429 m, 21–26 feb 2016, M. Moreno / river margin, manual collecting / MPUJ_ENT0043730 (MPUJ _ENT) ; Risaralda: 1 ♀, mun[icipio] Pueblo Rico, corr[egimiento] Santa Cecilia, vereda El Silencio, quebrada Piedras, 640 m, 15.iv.1991, G. Andrade #2390 / ICN029283 (ICN) ; Santander: 1 ♀, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-73.62112&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=5.9327774" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -73.62112/lat 5.9327774)">Barbosa</a>, 05°55ˊ58˝N 73°37ˊ16˝W, 1588 m, 14.x.1998, L. Gallego, J. Avila (UNAB) ; 1 ♂, municipio de Puerto Araujo, vereda Las Marias, finca los Manantiales, 130 m, 9.iv.2000, pitfall trap, 9:00–10:00, soleado [= sunny], col. Felipe Velez et al. (MPUJ _ENT) ; 1 ♀, Lebrija, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-73.18105&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=7.112886" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -73.18105/lat 7.112886)">Villa Lola</a>, 7.112886°N 73.181056°W, 1000 m, 13–20.iv.2014, M. Velasco, pitfall trap (MPUJ _ENT) ; Tolima: 1 ♀, Centro Cafam Melgar, 450 m, Barriga &amp; Bello, 4.iii.1991 (MPUJ _ENT) ; 1 ♂, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-74.9035&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=4.2801" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -74.9035/lat 4.2801)">Coello</a>, Reserva El Neme, ~ 1km SW de Coello, 4.2801°N 74.9035°W, 2–6.iii.2015, M. Cotes / MPUJ_ENT0037201 (MPUJ _ENT) ; 1 ♀, same data, D. Torres / MPUJ_ENT0037186 (MPUJ _ENT); 1 ♀, same data, 9–13 Mar 2015, M. Salgado et al. / MPUJ_ ENT0032894 (MPUJ _ENT); 1 ♂, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-74.741104&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=5.2069445" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -74.741104/lat 5.2069445)">Honda</a>, río Magdalena, 05°12ˊ25˝N 74°44ˊ28˝W, 225 m, iii.1997, R. Marin (UNAB) ; 1 ♂, vereda la Guardra, Mariquita, G. Murillejo, 23.ix.1978 / ICN029284 (ICN) ; Valle del Cauca: 1 ♀, Tuluá, Jardín Botanico, 28.viii.1996, A. Vitolo (MPUJ _ENT) ; 1 ♀, 1 ♂, municipio de Tuluá, Jardín Botánico "Juan María Céspedes", 1100 m, E. Amat (MPUJ _ENT) ; 1 ♂, same data, C. Sorzano (MPUJ _ENT) .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7F7887DA881FC475FF3EFF2C339A09F2	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Forero, Dimitri;Mejía-Soto, Andrés	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): 451-481, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1
7F7887DA8812C473FF3EF95434560F2E.text	7F7887DA8812C473FF3EF95434560F2E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Rhiginia conspersa Breddin 1901	<div><p>Rhiginia conspersa Breddin, 1901</p><p>Figs. 7A, B</p><p>Distribution: This species is known from Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador (Dougherty 1995; Gil-Santana 2019; Maldonado 1990). As with other Ectrichodiini species from the Neotropics, Dougherty (1995) did not indicate specific localities from Colombia for R. conspersa, which are provided here.</p><p>Remarks: Gil-Santana (2019) presented a dorsal habitus image of the holotype from Ecuador. He also documented a specimen from Panama and noted the variation in the coloration of the connexiva, being a continuous, slightly sinuous, yellow line in the holotype from Ecuador, and clearly banded with an almost semicircular yellow spot on each connexival segment in the specimen from Panama. The examined Colombian specimens have a banded connexival coloration pattern as the Panamanian specimen (Figs. 7A, B), in which each connexival segment has the posterior half completely dark, thus interrupting the yellow band. Most observations on iNaturalist of R. conspersa from Ecuador (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=7512&amp;taxon_id=900438) have a nearly continuous yellow line on the margin of the connexiva, thus matching the coloration pattern of the holotype. A single observation from Ecuador (Manabí, reserva Jama-Coaque) exhibit a more undulated continuous yellow line (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/35462859), thus being almost intermediate between the coloration of the holotype —and most of the remaining Ecuadorian specimens—and those from Panama and Colombia.</p><p>Examined material: COLOMBIA. Antioquia: 1 ♂, Río Claro, San Luis, 440 m, 6.ix.1994 (MPUJ _ENT) ; 1 ♂, same data, no date, EFA (MPUJ _ENT); 1 ♂, same data, 9.v.94, Diana Marquez (MPUJ _ENT); Atlántico: 1 ♀, reserva campesina la <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-75.01278&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=10.767389" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -75.01278/lat 10.767389)">Montaña</a>, 10.7673889°N 75.0127778°W, 214 m, v.2013, M. C. Román [colecta manual] (MPUJ _ENT) ; Boyacá: 1 ♀, Puerto Boyacá, Puerto Romero, vereda la Fiebre, quebrada la Fiebre, pitfall trap, 400 m, 11.iii.2000, M. Rocha y estudiantes (ICN) ; Caldas: 2 ♀♀, Dorada, Guarinocito, 980 m, 15–17.ix.1989, Sanguine, Arce, Arango, Orozco, Higuera (MPUJ _ENT) ; 1 ♀, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-74.66722&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=5.4566665" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -74.66722/lat 5.4566665)">La Dorada</a>, 05°27ˊ24˝N 74°40ˊ02˝W, 178 m, 14.iv.2001, grasses, E. Ruiz, K. Caballero, J. Cardena (UNAB) ; Chocó: 1 ♂, Acandí, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-77.34772&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=8.635046" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -77.34772/lat 8.635046)">Capurganá</a>, [8.635046°N 77.347716°W], en vega de río [= river plain], 31.iii.2009, A. Bernal (MPUJ _ENT) ; 1 ♀, Acandí, Capurganá, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-77.350426&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=8.639755" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -77.350426/lat 8.639755)">Jardín Botánico del Darién</a>, [8.639755°N 77.350424°W], 60 m, rastrojo [= scrub vegetation], 9.iv.2008, manual collecting, M. Camargo J. Izquierdo (MPUJ _ENT); 1 nymph, same data, 40 m, 11.x.2007, manual, forest, Angulo Rios (MPUJ _ENT); 1 ♂, Acandí, v[ere]da los Rios, bosque [Capurganá, Bosque camino a los Ríos], 270 m, 26.iv.2007, manual collecting, O. Amaya et al. (MPUJ _ENT); <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-76.74258&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=5.545833" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -76.74258/lat 5.545833)">Unión Panamericana Salero</a>, 05°32ˊ45˝N 76°44ˊ33.3˝W, 115 m, in forest, 16.vi.2001, J. C. Neita (UNAB) ; 1 ♂, Riosucio, Sautatá, H. Echeverri / PK(I-01084), 12.vi.1978 / ICN029271 (ICN) ; 1♂, same data, Cacarica / PK(I-01509), 2.viii.1978 / ICN029272 (ICN) ; 1 ♂, same data, Cacarica / PK(I-01510), 2.viii.1978 / ICN029273 (ICN) ; 1 ♂, same data, Tilupo / PK 00580, 9.iv.1978 / ICN029274 (ICN) ; Nariño: 1 ♂, Solahonda, manual collecting at night, 15.ix.2015, estudiantes taxonomia animal (ICN) ; Tolima: 1 ♂, Mariquita, J. H. Jimenez, 29.viii.1987 (MPUJ _ENT) ; 1♂, Purificación, El Baura, finca <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-74.930275&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=3.8625" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -74.930275/lat 3.8625)">Rivadavia</a>, 03°51ˊ45˝N 74°55ˊ49˝W, 329 m, 14.iv.2001, M. Amado, G. Padilla (UNAB) ; Valle del Cauca: 1 ♂, Buenaventura, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-76.9902&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=3.9534" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -76.9902/lat 3.9534)">Bajo Calima</a> CF UT [= centro forestal de la Universidad del Tolima, 3.9534°N 76.9902°W, 50 m], M. Pinzon (MPUJ _ENT) ; 1 ♂, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-76.49444&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=3.9250002" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -76.49444/lat 3.9250002)">Bajo Calima</a>, 03°55ˊ30˝N 76°29ˊ40˝W, 1485 m, 12.x.1988, M. Arcila (UNAB) .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7F7887DA8812C473FF3EF95434560F2E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Forero, Dimitri;Mejía-Soto, Andrés	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): 451-481, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1
7F7887DA8814C473FF3EFB1935250DFA.text	7F7887DA8814C473FF3EFB1935250DFA.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Rhiginia immarginata Stal 1866	<div><p>Rhiginia immarginata Stål, 1866</p><p>Fig. 7C</p><p>Distribution: This species was previously known from Ecuador (Forthman &amp; Gil-Santana 2021; Maldonado 1990; Stål 1872), Peru, and Brazil (Dougherty 1995). Dougherty (1995) just listed Brazil and Peru as countries for this species, but so far, no precise localities are known for these two. This species is a new country record from Colombia.</p><p>Remarks: Based on the examined Colombian specimen, and the Ecuadorian records (both from Forthman &amp; Gil-Santana 2021, and iNaturalist https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=7512&amp;subview=map&amp;taxon_ id=900445), R. immarginata seems to be restricted to the Amazon basin. Thus, it is likely that precise localities in Brazil and Peru could be found also in the Amazon.</p><p>Examined material: COLOMBIA. Amazonas: 1 ♂, Leticia, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-69.92325&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-4.141667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -69.92325/lat -4.141667)">Monilla Amena</a> [Comunidad indígena Monifue Amena, Km 9.8 vía Leticia-Tarapacá, 04.141667°S 69.92325°W], light trap, chagra [= agricultural field], 13.x.2002, 60 m, Cotes et al. (MPUJ _ENT) .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7F7887DA8814C473FF3EFB1935250DFA	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Forero, Dimitri;Mejía-Soto, Andrés	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): 451-481, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1
7F7887DA8814C471FF3EF8A532120AFE.text	7F7887DA8814C471FF3EF8A532120AFE.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Cidoria flava Amyot & Serville 1843	<div><p>Cidoria flava Amyot &amp; Serville, 1843</p><p>Figs. 8A, B</p><p>Distribution: Cidoria flava is known from French Guiana (Maldonado 1990) and Peru (Zhang &amp; Weirauch 2014), and it represents a new generic and species record from Colombia. All known specimens are restricted to the Amazon basin.</p><p>Remarks: Cidoria flava is probably a nocturnal Harpactorini species because it has been collected at lights (Bérenger 2007). Mejía-Soto et al. (2022) suggested that C. flava might be a Ploeogaster species. Zhang &amp; Weirauch (2014) included a specimen identified as Ploeogaster sp. (UCR_ENT 00001516, RCW_636), which given its pronotal structure, fits what has been described as Cidoria (Mejia-Soto et al. 2022) . This specimen was nested within the Ploeogaster clade in the analysis of Zhang &amp; Weirauch (2014). Future studies might corroborate this, leading to the synonymy of Cidoria and Ploeogaster .</p><p>Examined material: COLOMBIA. Vaupés: 1 ♂, comunidad Villa Fatima, iv.2002, W. Yara (CTNI) .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7F7887DA8814C471FF3EF8A532120AFE	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Forero, Dimitri;Mejía-Soto, Andrés	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): 451-481, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1
7F7887DA8816C471FF3EFE6034320F0A.text	7F7887DA8816C471FF3EFE6034320F0A.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Corcia nigricornis Champion 1899	<div><p>Corcia nigricornis Champion, 1899</p><p>Figs. 8C, D</p><p>Distribution: This species was only known from Volcán Chiriquí, in Panama (Champion 1899; Maldonado 1990). The specimens examined here represent a new species record from Colombia.</p><p>Remarks: Champion (1899) described two new species of Corcia Stål, 1859, C. costaricensis Champion, 1899, and a very similar species, C. nigricornis Champion, 1899 from Costa Rica. Both species have different color patterns but similar thoracic and head morphology. He indicated that C. costaricensis could be a variety of C. nigricornis, being C. nigricornis described from a female and C. costaricensis from a male. Given that all known specimens of C. nigricornis are females, including those examined here, it is indeed possible that these two names correspond to a single, dimorphic species. Sexual dimorphism is also present in C. columbica Stål, 1859, in which females are yellow with dark bands, whereas males are yellow with a black head. The hypothesis that these two names correspond to a single species should await for additional specimens and natural history observations to be corroborated.</p><p>Examined material: COLOMBIA. Ant [ioquia]: 1 ♀, Sonsón, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-74.85309&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=5.884758" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -74.85309/lat 5.884758)">Reserva Cañon del Río Claro</a> 5°53ˊ5.13˝N; 74°51ˊ11.13˝W, 350–400 m, primary forest, manual collecting, 31.viii.2015, A. Mejía, CEUA 98982 (CEUA) ; 1 ♀, Rionegro, corr[egimiento] San Antonio de Pereira, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-75.380005&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=6.1302724" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -75.380005/lat 6.1302724)">Parque</a> las <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-75.380005&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=6.1302724" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -75.380005/lat 6.1302724)">Veraneras</a>, 6°07ˊ48.98˝N 75°22ˊ48˝W, 2126 m, forest, insect net, 10.viii.2011 C. Pérez, CEUA 99235 (CEUA) ; Córdoba: 1 ♀, Tierralta, Vda. La Oscurana, humid forest, insect net, 16.xi.2006, H. G. Pertuz (MPUJ _ENT) .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7F7887DA8816C471FF3EFE6034320F0A	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Forero, Dimitri;Mejía-Soto, Andrés	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): 451-481, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1
7F7887DA8816C470FF3EFB7436E60AFE.text	7F7887DA8816C470FF3EFB7436E60AFE.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Pirnonota convexicollis Stal Barber 1859	<div><p>Pirnonota convexicollis Stål, 1859</p><p>Fig. 9A</p><p>Distribution: This species was described from Brazil with subsequent records from Panama (Champion 1899; Maldonado 1990; Stål 1859) and Colombia (Forero 2006). It represents a new species record from Honduras, Costa Rica, Bolivia, and Peru. The examined material notably extends the previously known distribution for this species, both in Central and South America.</p><p>Remarks: Champion (1899) documented the color variation of this species on the pronotum and hemelytra. This polychromatism is apparently not sexually related, as males and females both vary their color, and it is similar to what happens in many other Harpactorini species. The biological significance of this color polymorphism is unknown. Polychromatism is also present in other predatory Heteroptera such as Asopinae ( Pentatomidae) (Brugnera et al. 2019), which in some cases might be aposematic due to their prey being toxic (Doesburg 1970; Paleari 2013). Unraveling the natural history of P. convexicollis, in particular on its prey preferences, might shed light on this phenomenon.</p><p>Examined material: HONDURAS. 1 adult, sex unknown (abdomen shriveled), La Ceiba, 17.ix.1916 / F. J. Dyer col. / Pirnonota convexicollis Stål Barber det. (USNM) . COSTA RICA. 1 ♀, Turrialba, 15.vii.1965, P. J. Spangler / Pirnonota convexicollis St Mald. (USNM); 1 ♀, Cartago, Grano de Oro, Chirripo, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-83.45916&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=9.81836" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -83.45916/lat 9.81836)">Turrialba</a>, 9.81836°N 83.45916°W, 1120 m, 19.vi.1993, P. Campos / UCR_ENT00014364 (MNCR ex INBIO) ; 1 ♀, Limon, Pococi, Colorado, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-83.71456&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=10.59281" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -83.71456/lat 10.59281)">Sector Cerro Cocori</a>, 30 km N Cariari, 10.59281°N 83.71456°W, 100 m, 1.xi.1994, F. Rojas / UCR_ ENT00014365 (MNCR ex INBIO) . PANAMA. 1 adult, sex unknown (abdomen shriveled), H Rio Indio, Pittier (USNM); 1 ♀, El Cermeno, i–iv.1941 Ztek 4775 / fruit fly trap / lot N. 41-7233 / Pirnonota convexicollis det. Elkins (USNM) ; 1 ♀, Cristobal Canal Zone, 5.vi.1918, M. F. Dietx coll. / Pirnonota convexicollis det. Elkins (USNM) . COLOMBIA. Valle del Cauca: 1 ♂, Rio Jamundí, 10 mi. S. Cali, 3000 feet, 19.vii.1970, H. &amp; A. Howden / UCR_ ENT20588 [dissected] (CNC) ; Risaralda: 1 ♂, Pueblo Rico, Montezuma Ecolodge, 5.9 km WbN of <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-76.08364&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=5.23016" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -76.08364/lat 5.23016)">Pueblo Rico</a> 05.23016°N 76.08364°W, 1336 m, golpeteo de vegetación [= foliage beating], 2–7.ix.2018, D. Forero / MPUJ_ ENT0067388 (MPUJ _ENT) . BOLIVIA. 1 ♀, Yungas, Yana [ca]chi, M. Cardenas / Pirnonota convexicollis det. Elkins (USNM) . PERU. Madre de Dios: 1 ♂ (?) (abdomen shriveled), Rio Tambopata Res [erve], 30 km (air) SW Pto. Maldonado, 290 m 12°50ˊS 69°17ˊW / Smithsonian Institution Canopy fogging project T.L. Erwin et al colls. 14.ix.1984 01-03 (USNM) .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7F7887DA8816C470FF3EFB7436E60AFE	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Forero, Dimitri;Mejía-Soto, Andrés	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): 451-481, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1
7F7887DA8817C470FF3EFE6133490E92.text	7F7887DA8817C470FF3EFE6133490E92.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Pselliopus punctipes Amyot and Serville 1843	<div><p>Pselliopus punctipes Amyot and Serville, 1843</p><p>Fig. 9B</p><p>Distribution: Pselliopus punctipes Amyot &amp; Serville, 1843 has been recorded from Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Panama, French Guiana, and Suriname (Brailovsky et al. 2007; Champion 1899; Maldonado 1990; Stål 1862). This species represents a new generic and species record from Colombia.</p><p>Remarks: Pselliopus punctipes is easy to recognize because of the irregular dark bands on the legs, the spined humeral angles, the shortly tuberculate posterior pronotal lobe, and the few long spines on the anterior pronotal lobe (Champion 1899). Finding this species in Colombia fills the gap between Panama and other areas in northern South America.</p><p>There is some variation in the color pattern of this species. The head ranges from dorsally being nearly entirely black to just having a few longitudinal spots on its posterior lobe and adjacent to the ocelli. Similarly, the extension of the dark area adjacent to the base of the spine at the humeral angles of the pronotum is variable. It ranges from nearly covering the entire posterior half of the posterior lobe to being restricted to the base of the humeral spines. The dark area does not extend into the posterior recurved flange of the posterior margin of the pronotum. The disc of the posterior lobe has a few medium-sized setae whose bases are always black.</p><p>Examined material: COLOMBIA. Chocó: 1♂, Rio Sucio, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-77.33778&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=7.0405555" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -77.33778/lat 7.0405555)">La Balsa</a>, 7°2ˊ26˝N, 77°20ˊ16˝W, 50–80 m, F. Fernandez / ICN037902 (ICN) ; Casanare: 1 ♀, Tauramena, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-72.77376&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=5.00385" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -72.77376/lat 5.00385)">Kiosco Verde</a>, ~ 2.5 km SW de Tauramena, 526 m, 5.00385°N 72.77376°W, 25–29.viii.2014, D. Forero (MPUJ _ENT) ; 1 ♂, Trinidad, reserva natural <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-71.5997&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=5.4202" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -71.5997/lat 5.4202)">La Palmita</a>, 05.4202°N 71.5997°W, 182 m, 18–23.viii.2019, J. Ariza, R. García / flooded gallery forest / MPUJ_ENT0069978 (MPUJ _ENT) ; Córdoba: 1 ♀, Los Córdobas, la Salada, platanal [= banana plantation], manual collecting, vi.2005, C. Fernández / MPUJ_ENT0011097 (MPUJ _ENT) ; 1 ♀, Pto. Libertador CCSA, rastrojo [= scrub vegetation], insect net, 30.i.2006, H. G. Pertúz / MPUJ_ENT0011096 (MPUJ _ENT) . Cundinamarca: 1 ♀, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-73.81638&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=4.22777" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -73.81638/lat 4.22777)">Guayabetal</a>, 4.22777°N 73.81638°W, 1200 m, 1.vi.1969, A. Uribe / UCR_ENT00045995 (UNAB) ; 1 adult sex not determined (abdomen missing), La Mesa, 2.ix.1991, B. B. / ICN028123 (ICN) ; 1 ♂, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-74.33972&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=4.99083" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -74.33972/lat 4.99083)">La Vega</a>, 4.99083°N 74.33972°W, 1230 m, 14.ix.1996, C. Salas / UCR_ENT 00045993 (UNAB) ; Santander: 1 ♂, Suaita, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-73.43333&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=6.1" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -73.43333/lat 6.1)">Hacienda Santa Barbara</a>, 6.10000°N 73.43333°W, 1550 m, Y. Sossa &amp; R. Garzon / UCR_ENT 00045994 (UNAB) ; Tolima: 1 ♂, El Guamo, 20.vi.1976, A. Bernal / ICN028122 (ICN); Valle del Cauca: 1 ♂, Buenaventura, Bajo Calima, centro forestal UT [universidad del Tolima], 70m, entomological net, 21.iii.1995 / MPUJ_ENT0011102 (MPUJ _ENT) .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7F7887DA8817C470FF3EFE6133490E92	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Forero, Dimitri;Mejía-Soto, Andrés	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): 451-481, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1
7F7887DA8817C46EFF3EF98C3509084E.text	7F7887DA8817C46EFF3EF98C3509084E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Repipta lepidula Stal 1866	<div><p>Repipta lepidula Stål, 1866</p><p>Figs. 9C, D; 11A–G</p><p>Distribution: This species has been recorded from Brazil (Amazonas) and Peru (Huánuco) (Martin-Park et al. 2012). It is a new species record from Colombia.</p><p>Remarks: Repipta lepidula is a very distinctive species due to the overall brown coloration, with the paramedial posterior margin of the pronotum and the scutellum yellow (Fig. 9C). The previously known Brazilian and Peruvian localities are close to the Colombian one, and all known localities are restricted to the Amazon basin. Some of the Colombian specimens were collected in Várzea Forest, which is a seasonal floodplain forest.</p><p>Repipta Stål, 1859 is an ill-defined genus with dubious phylogenetic relationships. It includes 29 species ranging from the USA to Argentina (Martin-Park et al. 2012). Although Martin-Park et al. (2012) revised Repipta, at least four species (cf. Maldonado 1990) were omitted from their treatment without explanation, including R. sanguinea (see below), thus making it very difficult to use their key or treatment for species identification. Given that the documentation of the genitalia of the species of Repipta seems to be critical to identify Repipta species, and that Martin-Park et al. (2012) images of the male and female genitalia were either extremely poorly detailed or not documented at all, we are providing high quality images here. This is the first time the male genitalia of R. lepidula are documented (Fig. 11). The median process of the pygophore is short, broadly rounded, and shortly setose (Figs. 11A–C). The paramere is cylindrical, relatively long, about half as long as the pygophore length, with a few scattered setae, denser and longer near the apex (Fig. 11A). The aedeagus has the endosoma with a pair of very short median basal sclerotizations (Fig. 11E); the median dorsal lobe has a pair of U-shaped areas beset with small triangular microtrichia, and an apical round field of similar microtrichia. The dorsal phallothecal plate is flat, ovoid and broadly rounded apically (Fig. 11G).</p><p>Examined material: COLOMBIA. Amazonas: 1 ♂, Leticia, comunidad <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-69.923256&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-4.141667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -69.923256/lat -4.141667)">Monilla</a> [Comunidad indígena <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-69.923256&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-4.141667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -69.923256/lat -4.141667)">Monifue Amena</a>, Km 9,8 vía <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-69.923256&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-4.141667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -69.923256/lat -4.141667)">Leticia-Tarapacá</a>, 04.141667°S 69.923256°W, 70 m], Várzea Forest, 60 m, 30.iv.2002, manual collecting at night, Cadena, Gualdron, Pans (MPUJ_ENT); 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, PNN Amacayacu, Vía Palmeras, edge of Varzea Forest, jameo [= entomological net], D. Campos &amp; F. Fernández, 1.ix.1997 / IAvH-E-87164, IAvH-E-87209, IAvH-E-87224, IAvH-E-87254 (IAVH) ; 2 ♂♂, PNN Amacayacu, Vía Palmeras, borde, jameo [= entomological net], D. Campos &amp; F. Fernández, 2.ix.1997 / IAvH-E-87194, IAvH-E-87239 (IAVH) ; 1 adult (sex unknown), PNN Amacayacu, Matamata, 3°23ˊS 70°6ˊW, 150 m, entomological net, D. Chota, 2.i.2000 / IAvH-E-87887 (IAVH) ; 1 ♂, PNN Amacayacu, Matamata, 3°23ˊS 70°6ˊW, 150 m, entomological net, M.1887, A. Parente, 28.v.2001 / IAvH-E-87848 (IAVH) .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7F7887DA8817C46EFF3EF98C3509084E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Forero, Dimitri;Mejía-Soto, Andrés	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): 451-481, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1
7F7887DA8809C469FF3EFC3033F209DE.text	7F7887DA8809C469FF3EFC3033F209DE.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Repipta sanguinea Champion 1899	<div><p>Repipta sanguinea Champion, 1899</p><p>Figs. 10A–D; 12A–D; 13A–E</p><p>Distribution: This species was known only from Panama (Champion 1899; Maldonado 1990). It is a new species record from Colombia.</p><p>Remarks: As mentioned above, R. sanguinea was not treated in Martin-Park et al. (2012). Repipta sanguinea is very similar to R. coccinea (Herrich-Schäffer,1850), also from Colombia, because both are mostly reddish species. Herrich-Schäffer (1850) described R. coccinea as being brilliant red (“coccineus”), with a hyaline brown hemelytral membrane, dark antennae, red legs, and red pronotal spines. He also mentioned that in some specimens the antennae and legs might be darkened, and the pronotal spines might be red. When Champion (1899) described R. sanguinea, he failed to compare his new species to R. coccinea, although he mentioned that the pronotal spines were yellow apically, the inner (posterior) portion of the corium and part of the clavus yellowish, and the hemelytral membrane yellow; all these characters setting it apart from R. coccinea . When redescribing R. coccinea, Martin-Park et al. (2012) mentioned that the pronotal spines are yellowish, that leg color could be variable, and that the clavus is brown, and the membrane is hyaline brown. The latter two characters fit Herrich-Schäffer’s description. Because the specimens examined by us have a yellowish membrane and pronotal spines, and a reddish corium with a yellowish area between the corium and the clavus, it fits better the original description of R. sanguinea, thus assigning this identification to them.</p><p>As stated above for R. lepidula, because genitalic morphology might be of diagnostic value for identification of species of Repipta, we are documenting the male and female genitalia of R. sanguinea . The pygophore is strongly setose caudally (Fig. 12); the paramere is L-shaped, and strongly setose, with long setae, in all its surface (Fig. 12A– C). The endosoma has a pair of rod-like, medial basal sclerotizations, about half as long as the dorsal phallothecal plate (Fig. 13A, B); the medial basal lobe has a pair of U-shaped areas beset with small triangular microtrichia, and an apical round field of similar trichia. The dorsal phallothecal plate is flat, elongated, and sharply rounded medially at the apex (Fig. 13C). The bursa copulatrix is quadrangular with two large ovoid lateral pouches (Fig. 13D–E); with no strong sclerotizations in the anterior area of the bursa where it connects to the median oviduct. Future work should document and carefully compare the genitalia of other Repipta species and reveal if R. sanguinea and R. coccinea are synonyms or valid species.</p><p>Examined material: COLOMBIA. Antioquia: 1 ♀, km 12 Rio sucio, Restrepo, 510 m, 16.xi.1976, C. Bernal (ICN); Casanare: 1 ♂, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-72.77376&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=5.00385" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -72.77376/lat 5.00385)">Tauramena</a>, Kiosco Verde, ~ 2.5 km al SW de Tauramena, 5.00385°N 72.77376°W , 526 m, 8–12.ix.2014, S. Tibabuzo (MPUJ _ENT); 1 ♀, same data, D. Forero (MPUJ _ENT); Cordoba: 1 ♀, Montelibano, 7°59ˊ31.4˝N, 75°24ˊ35.5˝W, wetland, manual collecting, H. González Pertuz / MPUJ_ENT0075198 (MPUJ _ENT); 1 ♂, Montelibano,PIRE – Humedal [= wetland], on vegetation, 6.viii.2006, H.González Pertuz /MPUJ_ENT0075197 (MPUJ _ENT) ; 1 ♂, Pto Libertador, CCSA, rastrojo [=scrub vegetation], entomological net, 14.xi.2005, H. González Pertuz / MPUJ_ENT0075196 (MPUJ _ENT); 1 adult, sex unknown (without abdomen), Tierralta, Hda. Las Brisas, las Mayorias, grassland, entomological net, 9.iv.2005, H. González Pertuz / MPUJ_ENT0075221 (MPUJ _ENT) ; Cundinamarca: 1 ♀, Guaduas, 5.vii.1976, A. Bernal (ICN); Meta: 1 ♀, km 4 vía Acacias, C . Cordoba (ICN); 1 ♀, Acacias, La Esmeralda, 514 m, 23.iv.2004, E. Flores (ICN); Vichada: 1 ♀, Gaviotas, 167 m, 20.vii.1973, R. Cortés (ICN); Meta: 1 ♀, San Martín, Reserva el Caduceo, Km 4.5 a <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-73.65945&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=3.671389" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -73.65945/lat 3.671389)">San</a> Francisco, 03.671389°N 73.659444°W , 309 m, 30.ix–4.x.2013, L. Camacho (MPUJ _ENT); 1 ♀, same data, 30.ix–5.x.2013, P. Duarte (MPUJ _ENT); 1 ♂, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-73.40181&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=3.53173" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -73.40181/lat 3.53173)">San Martín</a>, Reserva Rey Zamuro-Matarredonda, ~ 37 km ESE de San Martin, 03.53173°N 73.40181°W , 293 m, 8–12.iv.2019, M. Camelo / gallery forest, manual collecting / MPUJ_ENT0065820 (MPUJ _ENT); 1 ♂, same data, C. Salazar, L. Sáenz / gallery forest, low vegetation, manual collecting / MPUJ_ENT0065696 (MPUJ _ENT); 1 ♂, same data, S. Ochoa, V. Páez, L. Rodríguez / Sabana [= savannah], manual collecting / MPUJ_ENT0065927 (MPUJ _ENT); 1 ♀, same data, 17–21.ix.2018, A. Zapata, D. Cancino, M. Jaimes / edge of gallery forest, manual collecting / MPUJ_ENT0063483 (MPUJ _ENT); 1 ♂, same data, J. Molano, M. Rubiano (MPUJ _ENT); 1 ♂, same data, 28.viii–1.ix.2017, D. Cáceres (MPUJ _ENT); 1 ♀, San Martín, vda. San Francisco, Finca Tocancipá, sabana [= savannah] , 330 m, Romero (MPUJ _ENT); 1 ♀, same data, manual collecting, Gordillo, Murillo (MPUJ _ENT); 1 ♀, [Villavicencio] Apiay, granja experimental La Libertad, manual collecting, x.2000 (MPUJ _ENT) .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7F7887DA8809C469FF3EFC3033F209DE	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Forero, Dimitri;Mejía-Soto, Andrés	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): 451-481, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1
7F7887DA880EC469FF3EFD4034880FD6.text	7F7887DA880EC469FF3EFD4034880FD6.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Sosius foliaceus Champion 1899	<div><p>Sosius foliaceus Champion, 1899</p><p>Figs. 14A, B</p><p>Distribution: This species was known from Mexico (Veracruz and Yucatán), Panama (Bugaba) (Champion 1899), and Brazil (Gil-Santana 2007). It is a new generic and species record from Colombia.</p><p>Remarks: Sosius Champion, 1899 was revised by Maldonado &amp; Carpintero (1993), including two very similar species, S. foliaceus and S. australis Maldonado &amp; Carpintero, 1993 . The examined female specimen fits better the description of S. foliaceus given the structure and dimensions of the pronotum, which is almost as long as wide (length/width = 0.93). The examined specimen was found preying over other insects on a coffee plantation (Figs. 14A–B).</p><p>Examined material: COLOMBIA. Valle del Cauca: 1 ♀, Ansermanuevo, depredador en café [= predator on coffee plantation], 10.v.2017, M. Jiménez / MEMB 201471 (MEMB) .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7F7887DA880EC469FF3EFD4034880FD6	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Forero, Dimitri;Mejía-Soto, Andrés	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): 451-481, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1
7F7887DA880EC469FF3EFB4934E10D02.text	7F7887DA880EC469FF3EFB4934E10D02.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Zelus championi Zhang & Hart 2016	<div><p>Zelus championi Zhang &amp; Hart, 2016</p><p>Fig. 14C, D</p><p>Distribution: This species is known from Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Panama (Zhang et al. 2016). It is a new species record from Colombia.</p><p>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).</p><p>Examined material: COLOMBIA. Antioquia: 1 ♂, Sabaneta, barrio <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-75.61361&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=6.1505556" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -75.61361/lat 6.1505556)">La Doctora</a>, 6°9ˊ2˝N 75°36ˊ49˝W, 1570 m, garden, manual collecting, 1.v.2010, J. Castro, CEUA 99010 (CEUA) .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7F7887DA880EC469FF3EFB4934E10D02	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Forero, Dimitri;Mejía-Soto, Andrés	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): 451-481, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1
7F7887DA8801C466FF3EFCF835470D02.text	7F7887DA8801C466FF3EFCF835470D02.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Aradomorpha championi , Lent & Wygodzinsky 1944	<div><p>Aradomorpha championi Lent &amp; Wygodzinsky, 1944</p><p>Fig. 16A</p><p>Distribution: This species is known only from Brazil (Rio de Janeiro) (Lent &amp; Wygodzinsky 1944; Maldonado 1990). It is a new generic and specific record from Colombia.</p><p>Remarks: Aradomorpha Champion, 1899 is a seldom collected reduviid genus. Wygodzinsky (1949b) provided a key to the species of Aradomorpha based on the original descriptions of the species (Champion 1899; Costa Lima 1940; Lent &amp; Wygodzinsky 1944). We identified the examined specimen as A. championi based on the small eyes not reaching the ventral margin of the head, the banded connexivum, and the similar width of the cells of the membrane of the hemelytron. Nonetheless, the head does not have a ventral, shallow, longitudinal medial excavation on the head, and the forefemur is not slender and the foretibia does have an apical dorsal spiniform process. The foreleg structure is more similar to what was described for A. chinai Costa Lima, 1940 and A. crassipes Champion, 1899 (Costa Lima 1940; Wygodzinsky 1949b), being the forefemur wider and the foretibia beset with a dorsoapical setiform process. When describing A. championi, Lent &amp; Wygodzinsky (1944) illustrated the fore femora and foretibia in ventral views (see their figures 14 and 15), therefore, we cannot be sure if the tibial process if present or not. Their figure 1 (Lent &amp; Wygodzinsky 1944) shows the foreleg in lateral view and the femur seems to be as wide as in the other species. Thus, we cannot draw conclusions based on the foreleg structure. Given that the Brazilian specimens of A. championi are all macropterous, with the hemelytra reaching the apex of the abdomen (Lent &amp; Wygodzinsky 1944), and that the examined specimen is submacropterous (Fig. 16A), there is still the possibility that this specimen might represent a different, undescribed, species. Only with more specimens from the Caribbean coast from Colombia we will be able to address variability in all the characters mentioned above.</p><p>Examined material: COLOMBIA. Mag [dalena]: 1 ♀, Parque Tayrona, C. Kugler / abanico aluvial [= alluvial fan] Neguanje / IAVH-E 188392 (IAVH) .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7F7887DA8801C466FF3EFCF835470D02	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Forero, Dimitri;Mejía-Soto, Andrés	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): 451-481, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1
7F7887DA8801C466FF3EFF2C327D09DE.text	7F7887DA8801C466FF3EFF2C327D09DE.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Zelus nigromaculatus Champion 1899	<div><p>Zelus nigromaculatus Champion, 1899</p><p>Figs. 15A–E</p><p>Distribution: This species is known from Costa Rica and Panama (Zhang et al. 2016). It is a new species record for Colombia.</p><p>Remarks: Both specimens were captured alive as fifth instar nymphs at understory of a dense rain forest at the foot of the mountain on the western slope of Paramillo Massif (Nudo de Paramillo), in the north of the West Andes of Colombia (Fig. 15E), and later bred until reaching the adult stage. This area has been strongly affected by extensive livestock farming and illegal logging. Both nymphs were located at the same plant ( Melastomataceae) (Fig. 15C–D) along with two other nymphs, showing gregarious habit at this developmental stage as has been documented in other Harpactorinae . Adults resemble vespoid wasps (Zhang et al. 2016), whereas nymphs, which exhibit the same banded leg color pattern, probably resemble Oxyopidae spiders (Fig. 15C–D).</p><p>Examined material: COLOMBIA. Antioquia: 1 ♂, Mutatá, Vereda San José de León, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-76.5117&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=7.49502" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -76.5117/lat 7.49502)">Finca La Soledad</a> 2, 7.49502°N; 76.51170°W, 477 m, 3–8.vii.2022, entomological net, day collecting, forest edge, J. Sauceda-V., I. Ceballos-C., A. Mejía-S., J. C. Calderon., CEUA 129221 (CEUA) ; 1 ♀, same data, CEUA 129222 (CEUA) .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7F7887DA8801C466FF3EFF2C327D09DE	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Forero, Dimitri;Mejía-Soto, Andrés	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): 451-481, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1
7F7887DA8801C464FF3EF8B4324E0AA6.text	7F7887DA8801C464FF3EF8B4324E0AA6.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Peregrinator biannulipes (Montrouzier & Signoret 1861)	<div><p>Peregrinator biannulipes (Montrouzier &amp; Signoret, 1861)</p><p>Figs. 16B–D</p><p>Distribution: Originally described from New Caledonia, but now considered a cosmopolitan species (Maldonado 1990), commonly found in many areas of the Palearctic such as China, Japan, and Egypt (Aukema &amp; Rieger 1996). In the Neotropical region it is so far known from Jamaica (Maldonado &amp; Farr 1977), Cuba, Panama (Champion 1899), and Trinidad and Tobago (GBIF 2024). Despite P. biannulipes being found in many countries around the world, it is the first time that this genus and species are formally recorded from Colombia.</p><p>Remarks: Peregrinator biannulipes is the combination currently recognized as valid for this species, as it has been erroneously placed in Alloecranum Reuter, 1881 (Ghauri 1962). This species is commonly associated with stored grain because of its predatory habits over grain pest species (Awadallah et al. 1984; Maldonado &amp; Farr 1977). The examined specimens from Palmira were found in a warehouse (“bodega”), probably a grain warehouse, thus explaining its presence there. In contrast, the specimens from Gutierrez were collected on vegetation using an entomological net.</p><p>Examined material: COLOMBIA. Cundinamarca: 1 ♂, Guiterrez, [vereda] El Carmen, finca los Arraynes, 2500 m, en cultivo de frijol bola roja [= on red bean crop], on leaves, jama [= entomological net], 29.ix.2003, J. Pardo (UNAB) . Valle del Cauca: 7 ♂♂, 3 ♀, Palmira, 23.vii.1958, bodega [= warehouse], G. Bravo (CTNI) .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7F7887DA8801C464FF3EF8B4324E0AA6	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Forero, Dimitri;Mejía-Soto, Andrés	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): 451-481, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1
