Zelurus montivagus Lent & Wygodzinsky, 1955

Gil-Santana, Hélcio R. & Oliveira Correia, João Paulo Sales, 2022, A new species of Zelurus Hahn, 1826 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Reduviinae), with taxonomical notes on three other related species of the genus, Revista Chilena de Entomología (Rev. Chil. Entomol.) 48 (2), pp. 237-255 : 250

Zelurus montivagus Lent & Wygodzinsky, 1955

( Figs. 37-44 )

Zelurus montivagus was described based on a male and two females from Cochabamba, Bolivia ( Lent and Wygodzinsky 1955). The latter are deposited in CTIOC and were examined here ( Figs. 37-44 ). An additional female from the same locality was mentioned by Lent and Wygodzinsky (1957), without other references to the species. Lent and Wygodzinsky (1955) stated that Z. montivagus belong to the fulvomaculatus group of Zelurus and close to Z. abalosi Lent & Wygodzinsky, 1951 .

Type material. Zelurus montivagus Lent & Wygodzinsky, 1955 [ CTIOC]. Paratype female (“ allotype ”): [bordered label:] [handwritten:] Zelurus montivagus / Lent + Wygod. , / 1955 / [printed:] H. LENT DET . // [printed red label:] ALLO / TYPUS // [printed label:] COCHABAMBA / 2000 M / ZISCHKA COL. [leg.] // [bordered printed label:] CTIOC / N°. 3087 // [bordered label:] [printed:] N. [handwritten:] 1297 / [printed:] HEMIPTERA / [printed:] Inst. Oswaldo Cruz . Paratype female: [bordered label:] [handwritten:] Zelurus montivagus / Lent + Wygod. , / 1955 / [printed:] H. LENT DET . // [printed red label:] PARA / TYPUS // [bordered printed label:] CTIOC / N°. 3088 // [bordered label:] [printed:] N. [handwritten:] 1296 / [printed:] HEMIPTERA / [printed:] Inst. Oswaldo Cruz // [printed label (badly readable):] BOLIVIA / COCHABAMBA / R . ZISCHKA [leg.] // [handwritten label:] 28.

Comments. The female paratypes examined agree well with the original description ( Lent and Wygodzinsky 1955) and the comparison with the type specimens of Z. galvaoi sp. nov. corroborates the diagnosis of the latter as presented above.

Figures

Figures 37-41. Zelurus montivagus Lent & Wygodzinsky, 1955, female paratype (“allotype”). 37-39. Scales: 3.0 mm. 37. Dorsal view. 38. Ventral view. 39. Lateral view. 40. Head, lateral view. Scale: 0.5 mm. 41. Labels. / Paratipo hembra (“alotipo”). 37-39. Escalas: 3,0 mm. 37. Vista dorsal. 38. Vista ventral. 39. Vista lateral. 40. Cabeza, vista lateral. Escala: 0,5 mm. 41. Etiquetas.

Figures 42-44. Zelurus montivagus Lent & Wygodzinsky, 1955, female paratype. 42-43. Scales: 3.0 mm. 42. Dorsal view. 43. Ventral view. 44. Labels. / Paratipo hembra. 42-43. Escalas: 3,0 mm. 42. Vista dorsal. 43. Vista ventral. 44. Etiquetas.