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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Reduviidae" genus="Iquitozelus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Iquitozelus couturieri" order="Hemiptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="8150" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="couturieri">Iquitozelus couturieri</taxonomicName>
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, 2003, p. 23, orig. descr. and fig.
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(
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, 2003), comb. nov. (current study).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="8150">Materials</paragraph>
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Type status:
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. Occurrence: occurrenceRemarks: Host plant: Psidium guajava; recordedBy:
<collectorName pageId="0" pageNumber="8150">Couturier, G</collectorName>
; sex:
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; Taxon: scientificName: Zeluscouturieri; family: Reduviidae; genus: Zelus; scientificNameAuthorship: (Berenger, 2003); Location: country:
<collectingCountry pageId="0" pageNumber="8150">Peru</collectingCountry>
; stateProvince: Loreto; locality:
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:9A7090D640F62D25C0588FAADA998D37:B5AD0642324AD1C4439452E0E53DF2FD" country="Peru" name="Iquitos" pageId="0" pageNumber="8150">Iquitos</location>
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<collectingDate pageId="0" pageNumber="8150" value="1992-07-20">1992-07-20</collectingDate>
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national d'Histoire naturelle
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Type status:
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. Occurrence: occurrenceRemarks: Host plant: Psidium guajava; recordedBy:
<collectorName pageId="0" pageNumber="8150">Couturier, G</collectorName>
; sex:
<specimenType pageId="0" pageNumber="8150">Adult Female</specimenType>
; Taxon: scientificName: Zeluscouturieri; family: Reduviidae; genus: Zelus; scientificNameAuthorship: (Berenger, 2003); Location: country:
<collectingCountry pageId="0" pageNumber="8150">Peru</collectingCountry>
; stateProvince: Loreto; locality:
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:9A7090D640F62D25C0588FAADA998D37:D8AE345272CC8248F78CC13660E1ED3C" country="Peru" name="Iquitos" pageId="0" pageNumber="8150">Iquitos</location>
; Event: eventDate:
<collectingDate pageId="0" pageNumber="8150" value="1992-07-20">1992-07-20</collectingDate>
; Record Level: institutionCode:
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Type status:
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. Occurrence: occurrenceRemarks: Host plant: Psidium guajava; recordedBy:
<collectorName pageId="0" pageNumber="8150">Couturier, G</collectorName>
; sex:
<specimenType pageId="0" pageNumber="8150">Adult Female</specimenType>
; Taxon: scientificName: Zeluscouturieri; family: Reduviidae; genus: Zelus; scientificNameAuthorship: (Berenger, 2003); Location: country:
<collectingCountry pageId="0" pageNumber="8150">Peru</collectingCountry>
; stateProvince: Loreto; locality:
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Type status:
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. Occurrence: occurrenceRemarks: Host plant: Psidium guajava; recordedBy:
<collectorName pageId="0" pageNumber="8150">Couturier, G</collectorName>
; sex:
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; Taxon: scientificName: Zeluscouturieri; family: Reduviidae; genus: Zelus; scientificNameAuthorship: (Berenger, 2003); Location: country:
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; stateProvince: Loreto; locality:
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="8150">Description</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="8150">Figs 63, 64</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="8150">Diagnosis</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="8150">
The connexivum segment VI with foliaceous expansion is unique among all females of
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spp.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="8150">Distribution</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="8150">South America (Fig. 64). Known only from Peru.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="8150">Taxon discussion</paragraph>
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<bibRefCitation author="Berenger, J-M" journalOrPublisher="Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie (N. S.)" pageId="0" pageNumber="8150" pagination="23 - 27" title="Iquitozeluscouturieri, nouveaux genre et nouvelle espece d'Harpactorinae du Perou (Heteroptera, Reduviidae)" volume="20" year="2003">
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(2003)
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described a new species of
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from Iquitos, Peru, and erected a new genus,
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to accommodate this species. We here transfer
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to
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for reasons aforementioned. This species shows a great deal of resemblance to three other species of
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Reduviidae" genus="Zelus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Zelus" order="Hemiptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="8150" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Zelus</taxonomicName>
,
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,
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and
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, all newly described in the current study. In these species, the head, legs and pronotum are more or less uniformly greenish-brown. There are a number of differences. The posterior pronotal lobe disc in
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appears to be only slightly above and nearly continuous with humeral angle. In the other three species, the discs are clearly above humeral angle. The posterior margin of the posterior pronotal lobe in
<taxonomicName lsidName="Z. couturieri" pageId="0" pageNumber="8150" rank="species" species="couturieri">Z. couturieri</taxonomicName>
is not developed, whereas it is well defined in other species. Furthermore, the lateral process of the humeral angle is conspicuously darkened, also unique to
<taxonomicName lsidName="Z. couturieri" pageId="0" pageNumber="8150" rank="species" species="couturieri">Z. couturieri</taxonomicName>
. Based the foregoing observations, it is likely that
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represents a distinct a species, and not the female of
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or
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. The specimens were not physically examined as
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(2003)
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has provided a detailed description of this species.
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