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First record of Zelus renardii Kolenati, 1856 in Portugal (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae)

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The first record of the Nearctic species Zelus renardii Kolenati, 1856 (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae) from Portugal is reported. The European distribution of the species is summarized.
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First record of Zelus renardii Kolenati, 1856 in Portugal
(Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae).
Torsten van der Heyden 1 & José Manuel Grosso-Silva 2
1 Immenweide 83. D-22523 Hamburg (GERMANY). e-mail: tmvdh@web.de
2 Museu de História Natural e da Ciência da Universidade do Porto (MHNC-UP) / PRISC, Praça Gomes Teixeira. 4099-002 Porto,
Portugal. e-mail: jmgrossosilva@mhnc.up.pt
Abstract: The first record of the Nearctic species Zelus renardii Kolenati, 1856 (Heteroptera: Reduviidae:
Harpactorinae) from Portugal is reported. The European distribution of the species is summarized.
Key words: Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Reduviidae, Zelus renardii, Portugal, Europe, Mediterranean Region, distribution,
first record.
Resumen: Primera cita de Zelus renardii Kolenati, 1856 en Portugal (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae). Se
presenta la primera cita de la especie neártica Zelus renardii Kolenati, 1856 (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae) de
Portugal. Se resume la distribución europea de la especie.
Palabras clave: Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Reduviidae, Zelus renardii, Portugal, Europa, Región Mediterránea, distribución,
primera cita.
Recibido: 17 de septiembre de 2020 Publicado on-line: 3 de octubre de 2020
Aceptado: 1 de octubre de 2020
Zelus renardii Kolenati, 1856 (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae) is the only species
belonging to the New World genus Zelus Fabricius, 1803 that has been introduced to Europe. So far,
the species has been reported from the following European countries: Albania, France, Greece, Italy,
Spain and Turkey (Davranoglou, 2011; Petrakis & Moulet, 2011; Baena & Torres, 2012; Vivas, 2012; Dioli,
2013; van der Heyden, 2015, 2017; Çerçi & Koçak, 2016; Zhang et al., 2016; Simov et al., 2017; Pinzari et
al., 2018; Rodríguez Lozano et al., 2018; Garrouste, 2019; Goula et al., 2019; Pérez-Gómez et al., 2020).
The known distribution of Z. renardii in Europe is principally limited to the Mediterranean Region.
On 15.09.2020, Nelson Conceição photographed a specimen of Z. renardii (Fig. 1) at Lota Beach
near Altura (personal communication). The site is located in the district of Faro (Algarve) at the
Atlantic coast, very close to the Portuguese border with Spain. Several photos of the specimen were
uploaded to the online database iNaturalist (Conceição, 2020). So far, this is the westernmost record of
the species in Europe (Garrouste, 2019; Pérez-Gómez et al., 2020).
As Z. renardii has not been reported from Portugal in scientific publications yet, the record
reported in this note is the first one for this country.
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank Nelson Conceição (Tavira, Portugal) for allowing us to use his photo of Z.
renardii to illustrate this paper and for additional information about his finding.
van der Heyden & Grosso-Silva (2020): First record of Zelus renardii Kol. in Portugal (Het.: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae).
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Fig. 1.- Specimen of Zelus renardii Kolenati, 1856, Lota Beach, Faro (Algarve), Portugal. (Photo: Nelson Conceição).
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