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 text Zootaxa 2025 2025-02-11 5584 4 451 481 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1 1175-5326 14853500 E0232160-9292-4F9A-A87B-BC073E8B9A50 Cidoria flava Amyot & Serville, 1843 Figs. 8A, B Distribution : Cidoria flava is known from French Guiana ( Maldonado 1990 ) and Peru ( Zhang & Weirauch 2014 ), and it represents a new generic and species record from Colombia . All known specimens are restricted to the Amazon basin. FIGURE 8 . Habitus images of Harpactorini species.A, B. Cidoria flava ; A. dorsal view; B. lateral view; C, D. Corcia nigricornis ; C. dorsal view; D. lateral view. 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 & 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 & Weirauch (2014) . Future studies might corroborate this, leading to the synonymy of Cidoria and Ploeogaster . Examined material : COLOMBIA . Vaupés : 1 ♂ , comunidad Villa Fatima, iv.2002 , W. Yara ( CTNI ) .