Pseudopothea paulai Gil-Santana, 2015

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 : 456

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E0232160-9292-4F9A-A87B-BC073E8B9A50
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14853524
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scientific name	Pseudopothea paulai Gil-Santana, 2015
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Pseudopothea paulai Gil-Santana, 2015 View in CoL

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Distribution: Described originally from the states of Ceará (Carquejo) and Amazonas (Benjamin Constant) in Brazil (Gil-Santana 2015), and recently recorded from Ecuador ( Gil-Santana & Husemann 2023). It represents a new generic and species record from Bolivia and Colombia.

Remarks: The examined specimens agree perfectly with the description and photos of Gil-Santana (2015) for this species. Based on the known distribution, this species seems to be found from the Amazon basin in the north to the Yungas in Bolivia in the south. All specimens examined here were collected in Malaise traps.

Examined material: BOLIVIA. Santa Cruz: 1 ♂, refugio los Volcanes 18 06ˊS 63 36ˊW, 1000 m, 25- 30.x.2007, F Romero, Malaise ( UCR) . COLOMBIA. Vaupés: 1 ♂, Estación biológica Mosiro-Itajura (Caparú), 1°4ˊS 69°31ˊW, 60 m, Malaise #M, 4392, 05-15.iii.2004, J. Pinzon / IAvH-E 175341 ( IAVH) .

References

Gil-Santana, H. R. & Husemann, M. (2023) New records of Reduviidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Paraguay, and Peru. Revista Chilena de Entomologia, 49 (2), 395-412. [https://www.biotaxa.org/rce/article/ view / 82406] https://doi.org/10.35249/rche.49.2.23.23

Figures

FIGURE 3. Habitus images of Ectrichodiini species. A. Pothea jaguaris, male, dorsal view; B, C. Pothea ventralis, female; B. dorsal view; C. lateral view; D. Pseudopothea paulai, male, dorsal view.