Sosius foliaceus Champion, 1899

Forero, Dimitri & Mejía-Soto, Andrés, 2025, Filling in the gaps for assassin bugs: taxonomic notes and new records of Reduviidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Neotropical countries, Zootaxa 5584 (4), pp. 451-481 : 473

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14853558
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scientific name	Sosius foliaceus Champion, 1899
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Sosius foliaceus Champion, 1899 View in CoL

Figs. 14A, B View FIGURE 14

Distribution: This species was known from Mexico (Veracruz and Yucatán), Panama (Bugaba) ( Champion 1899), and Brazil ( Gil-Santana 2007). It is a new generic and species record from Colombia.

Remarks: Sosius Champion, 1899 was revised by Maldonado & Carpintero (1993), including two very similar species, S. foliaceus and S. australis Maldonado & Carpintero, 1993 . The examined female specimen fits better the description of S. foliaceus given the structure and dimensions of the pronotum, which is almost as long as wide (length/width = 0.93). The examined specimen was found preying over other insects on a coffee plantation ( Figs. 14A–B View FIGURE 14 ).

Examined material: COLOMBIA. Valle del Cauca: 1 ♀, Ansermanuevo, depredador en café [= predator on coffee plantation], 10.v.2017, M. Jiménez / MEMB 201471 ( MEMB) .

References

Champion, G. C. (1899) Insecta Rhynchota. Hemiptera-Heteroptera. Vol II. In: Godman, F. D. & Salvin, O. (Eds.), Biologia Centrali Americana. Taylor & Francis, London, pp. 193-304.

Gil-Santana, H. R. (2007) New records of Reduviidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Brazil. Zootaxa, 1390 (1), 59-68. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1390.1.7

Maldonado, J. & Carpintero, D. J. (1993) Redescription of the Harpactorinae genus Sosius Champion 1899, with the description of a new species (Heteroptera: Reduviidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 95 (2), 223-227. [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/54579]