Diplodus plagiatus Zelus plagiatus A taxonomic monograph of the assassin bug genus Zelus Fabricius (Hemiptera: Reduviidae): 71 species based on 10,000 specimens Zhang, Guanyang Hart, Elwood R Weirauch, Christiane Biodiversity Data Journal 2016 4 8150 8150 5D25V Signoret, 1852 Signoret 1852 Insecta Reduviidae Zelus CoL Animalia Zelus plagiatus Hemiptera 0 8150 Arthropoda species plagiatus   Diplodus plagiatusSignoret, 1862, p. 584-585, orig. descr.; Walker, 1873, p. 126, cat.  Zelus plagiatus: Stal, 1872, p. 92, cat.; Lethierry and Severin, 1896, p. 153, cat.; Wygodzinsky, 1949a, p. 50, checklist; Maldonado, 1990, p. 330, cat.  Materials  Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: UCR_ENT 00075076; occurrenceRemarks: Verbatim label info: Peru coll. Signoret / Plagiat. det. Signoret. / Holotype / Zeuls plagiatus (Signoret) / Typus Diplodusplagiatus SIGNORET, 1862 etik. Hecher 1996 REDV. 484/1; recordedBy: Signoret; sex: Adult Female; Taxon: scientificName: Zelusplagiatus; family: Reduviidae; genus: Zelus; scientificNameAuthorship: (Signoret, 1852); Location: country: PERU; stateProvince: unknown; locality: Unknown; Identification: identifiedBy: G. Zhang; dateIdentified: 2012; Event: eventDate: No date provided; Record Level: institutionCode: NHMW  Description Figs 159, 160 Male: unknown. Female: (Fig. 159) Medium-sized, total length 13.20-15.43 mm (mean 14.32 mm, Suppl. material 2); slender. COLORATION: Brightly colored. Yellow and black. Dorsal surface mostly yellow, black patch on distal area of corium, posterior part of posterior pronotal lobe black; legs mostly black, femoral base yellowish, single yellowish subapical band on metafemur. VESTITURE: Sparsely setose. Head with short, to moderate length, erect and recumbent setae, scattered. Anterior pronotal lobe with short, erect and recumbent setae; posterior pronotal lobe with short, erect setae. Abdomen with short to moderate length erect setae. STRUCTURE: Head: Elongated, L/W = 2.69. Postocular lobe very long; in dorsal view distinctly narrowing through anterior 1/2, posterior 1/2 constant, tube-like. Eye moderately sized; lateral margin much wider than postocular lobe; dorsal and ventral margins removed from surfaces of head. Labium: I: II: III = 1: 2.1: 0.5. Thorax: Anterolateral angle rounded, without projection; medial longitudinal sulcus shallow near collar, deepening posteriorly. Posterior pronotal lobe with finely rugulose surface; disc distinctly elevated above humeral angle; humeral angle armed, with spinous process. Scutellum long; apex angulate. Legs: Slender. Hemelytron: Slightly surpassing apex of abdomen, not more than length of abdominal segment seven; quadrate cell moderately sized; Cu and M of cubital cell subparallel.  Diagnosis The dorsum predominantly yellow with the posterior pronotal lobe partly black and two black spots on hemelytra is distinctive of this species.  Distribution South America (Fig. 160). Countries with records: Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia and Peru. No date provided NHMW Signoret PERU Unknown 0 8150 UCR _ ENT 00075076 1 Holotype