Contribuição ao conhecimento do gênero Zelurus Hahn (Spiniger auct. ) (Reduviidae, Hemiptera)

Abstract

<abstract language="eng">In the present paper the authors describe the male and female genitalia of various species of Zelurus (=Spiniger). There were not always obtained reliable specific characters, specially in nearly related species. Futhermore there were studied 59 species and subspecies, from Dutch Guiana, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia and Argentine. New locality records and synonymic notes are given and some allotypes are designated. Eight species and two subspecies, from Brazil and Argentine, proved to new to science

Assassin Bugs (Reduviidae Excluding Triatominae)

“…Seven of the ten species of Nalata were keyed by Champion ( 1898 ). Neivacoris has three species, which were discussed by Lent and Wygodzinsky ( 1947 ). The eight species of Opisthacidius were studied and keyed by Wygodzinsky ( 1947 , 1956 ).…”

“…The eight species of Opisthacidius were studied and keyed by Wygodzinsky ( 1947 , 1956 ). The two species of Pantopsilus , P. bosqui Lent & Wygodzinsky, and P. longipes (Berg) are known only from Argentina and were studied by Costa Lima ( 1940 ) and Lent and Wygodzinsky ( 1947 ). Zeluroides has two species, Z. americanus from the USA and Mexico and Z. mexicanus from Mexico (Maldonado 1990 ).…”

“…The revision of Costa Lima ( 1940 ) included a key to the species. This key has been outdated for some time because of numerous taxonomical changes including the description of new species (e.g., Lent and Wygodzinsky 1945, 1951, 1955, 1966, 1968. Most members of Reduviinae are thought to be general insect or arthropod predators and are nocturnal (Schuh and Slater 1995 ).…”

“…Zelurus travassosi is also the most important predator of the trogloxene species G. spelaeum in the Brazilian state of São Paulo and the troglophile species Daguerreia inermes Soares & Soares (Opiliones, Gonyleptidae) in the state of Paraná (Machado et al 2003 ). Neivacoris steini (Stål) (Reduviinae) was collected in termite nests on several occasions (Lent and Wygodzinsky 1947 ).…”

The genus Zelurus Hahn, 1826, in Brazilian caves: description of new species and comments on the potential distribution of the genus in South America

“…The revision of this genus by Costa Lima (1940) (as Spiniger Burmeister, 1835) included a key to the species. This key is outdated because of numerous subsequent taxonomic changes, including the description of many new species (Costa Lima 1941, Martins 1942, Seabra & Hathaway 1943, Lent & Wygodzinsky 1945, 1947a,b, 1951a,b,c, 1954, 1955a,b,c, 1957, 1966, 1968, Costa Lima & Costa Leite 1950, Hussey 1953and Martínez 1974.…”