Filling in the gaps for assassin bugs: taxonomic notes and new records of Reduviidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Neotropical countries
Author
Forero, Dimitri
Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
Author
Mejía-Soto, Andrés
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
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Zootaxa
2025
2025-02-11
5584
4
451
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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1
1175-5326
14853500
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Peregrinator biannulipes
(Montrouzier & Signoret, 1861)
Figs. 16B–D
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 & Rieger 1996
). In the Neotropical region it is so far known from
Jamaica
(
Maldonado & 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
.
FIGURE 16
. Habitus and detailed images of
Aradomorpha championi
and
Peregrinator biannulipes
. A.
A. championi
, dorsal view; B–D.
P. biannulipes
; B. dorsal view; C. detail of the head in lateral view; D. lateral view.
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 & 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.
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
)
.