Zelus bahiaensis Zhang & Hart

Zhang, Guanyang, Hart, Elwood R & Weirauch, Christiane, 2016, A taxonomic monograph of the assassin bug genus Zelus Fabricius (Hemiptera: Reduviidae): 71 species based on 10,000 specimens, Biodiversity Data Journal 4, pp. 8150-8150 : 8150

Zelus bahiaensis Zhang & Hart sp. n.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: UCR_ENT 00071255 ; occurrenceRemarks: Name from type locality 'Bahia'. Wrongly spelled in Hart 1972, and changed to Zelusbahiaensis.; recordedBy: P. Silva; sex: Adult Male; Taxon: scientificName: Zelusbahiaensis; family: Reduviidae; genus: Zelus; scientificNameAuthorship: Zhang & Hart, 2016; Location: country: BRAZIL; stateProvince: Bahia; locality: Agua Preta ; decimalLatitude: -14.58333; decimalLongitude: -39.26666; Identification: identifiedBy: G. Zhang; dateIdentified: 2013; Event: samplingProtocol: Unknown; eventDate: No date provided; Record Level: institutionCode: TAMU

Description

Figs 39, 40, 41

Male: (Fig. 39) Medium-sized, total length 12.35 mm (n=1); slender. COLORATION: Much of body surface including head, anterior pronotal lobe, membrane, legs dark brown; very slender lighter colored medial longitudinal stripe on postocular lobe. Posterior pronotal lobe and corium orange. Pleura, abdomen reddish-brown. VESTITURE: Moderately setose. Dorsum of anteocular and anterior part of postocular with moderately dense, short, erect, spine-like setae, posterior part of postocular nearly glabrous; ventral surface of head with sparse, short, erect or recumbent setae. Pronotum with dense, short, erect, spine-like setae on dorsum and lateral surfaces, anterior lobe also intermixed with sparse, long, fine setae. Pleura with spine-like setae, sparse on metapleuron; intermixed with short to long, erect, fine and short, recumbent setae; scutellum with spine-like setae and erect, fine setae. Legs with very sparse setation. Corium and clavus with short, recumbent setae. Abdomen with moderately dense, short, semi-erect, fine setae, intermixed with sparse, long setae. Bush of moderately long, erect setae flanking medial process on posteroventral rim of pygophore; paramere apically with sparse, short, erect setae. STRUCTURE: Head: Cylindrical, L/W = 2.27. Postocular lobe long; in dorsal view distinctly narrowing through anterior 2/3, posterior 1/3 constant, tube-like. Eye moderately sized; lateral margin much wider than postocular lobe; dorsal margin removed from postocular transverse groove, ventral margin attaining ventral surface of head. Labium: I: II: III = 1: 1.8: 0.6. Basiflagellomere diameter slightly larger than that of pedicel. Thorax: Anterolateral angle rounded, without projection; medial longitudinal sulcus evident throughout, deepening posteriorly. Posterior pronotal lobe with rugulose surface; disc distinctly elevated above humeral angle; humeral angle rounded, without projection. Scutellum moderately long; apex slightly pointed, not projected. Legs: Very slender. Hemelytron: Greatly surpassing apex of abdomen by about 3x length of abdominal segment seven; quadrate cell large and broad; Cu and M of cubital cell subparallel. GENITALIA: (Fig. 40) Pygophore: Ovoid; mid-lateral fold adjacent to paramere insertion; slightly expanded laterally near base of paramere in dorsal view. Medial process cylindrical; very slender; moderately long, nearly half length of paramere; posteriorly directed; basal 2/3 straight, apically curved; apex in posterior view blunt, folded posteriad, marginally narrower. Paramere: Cylindrical; long, surpassing medial process; directed posteriad; slightly curved ventrad; apical part very slightly enlarged. Phallus: Dorsal phallothecal sclerite elongated; apical portion of phallothecal sclerite not distinctly tapered, convex, laterally angulate; apex truncate, medially emarginate; posterior margin of foramen deeply concave. Struts attached to dorsal phallothecal sclerite; apically separate, connected by bridge; basally mostly separate, moderately fused. Basal plate arm slender; separate; converging; in lateral view apically curved; bridge short; extension of basal plate expanded onto arm.

Female: Unknown.

Diagnosis

Recognized by the following combination of characters: the anterior pronotal lobe dark brown and the posterior pronotal lobe orange; the 1A an Pcu not intersecting, short crossvein between them; the long and slender, cylindrical medial process; the medial process apically folded posteriad; and the rather long paramere.

Etymology

Named after the Brazilian state Bahia, where the holotype was collected.

Distribution

South America (Fig. 41). Known from the type locality in Brazil.