Cidoria flava Amyot & Serville, 1843

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 : 463-465

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scientific name	Cidoria flava Amyot & Serville, 1843
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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.

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) .

References

Amyot, C. - J. - B. & Serville, A. (1843) Histoire naturelle des insectes. Hemipteres. Librairie encyclopedique de Roret; Fain et Thunot, Paris, lxxvi + 675 pp., 12 pls. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.8471

Berenger, J. M. (2007) Heteropteres Reduviidae noveaux de Guayane francaise. II - Harpactorinae, Harpactorini. Bulletin de la Societe entomologique de France, 112 (1), 29-40.

Maldonado, J. (1990) Systematic catalogue of the Reduviidae of the World. Caribbean Journal of Science, Special publication No. 1. University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, 694 pp.

Mejia-Soto, A., Forero, D. & Wolff, M. (2022) Taxonomic revision of Montina (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) from Colombia with description of three new species. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 62 (2), 325-381. https://doi.org/10.37520/aemnp.2022.019

Zhang, G. & Weirauch, C. (2014) Molecular phylogeny of Harpactorini (Insecta: Reduviidae): correlation of novel predation strategy with accelerated evolution of predatory leg morphology. Cladistics, 30 (4), 339-351. https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12049