Sobre as espécies de Spiniger do grupo femoralis

A new species of Zelurus Hahn, 1826 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Reduviinae), with taxonomical notes on three other related species of the genus

“…nov. shows more morphological similarities with Z. montivagus it would be considered as belonging to fulvomaculatus group of Zelurus sensu Wygodzinsky (1951, 1955). However, it is noteworthy that the groups (Costa Lima and Costa Leite 1950;Lent and Wygodzinsky 1951;Lent and Wygodzinsky 1954;Lent and Wygodzinsky 1968) as well as the "divisions" (Stål 1859(Stål , 1872 formerly stated within Zelurus are in need of a more thorough evaluation, including cladystic studies in order to clarify their validity. Therefore, the systematic relationship of the new species with other species such as Z. abalosi, Z. montivagus and Z. singularis, even if the similarities recorded among them are taken into account, must also be clarified with the aforementioned approaches in more comprehensive future studies, including more species of the genus.…”

“…in "divisions", some set of species were considered as forming groups in the genus, such as "group femoralis" (Costa Lima and Costa Leite 1950;Lent and Wygodzinsky 1954), "group fulvomaculatus" (Lent and Wygodzinsky 1951) and "group formosus" (Lent and Wygodzinsky 1968). Among them, some species with morphological similarities in relation to the new species described here, Zelurus abalosi Lent & Wygodzinsky, 1951 and Z. montivagus Lent & Wygodzinsky, 1955 were included in the "group fulvomaculatus" Wygodzinsky 1951, 1955).…”

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 This key is outdated because of numerous subsequent taxonomic changes, including the description of many new species (Costa Lima 1941, Martins 1942, Seabra & Hathaway 1943, Lent &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.…”