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Confirmation of the presence of Zelus renardii Kolenati, 1857 (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) on the Canary Islands (Spain)

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ISSN: 1989-6581
van der Heyden (2022)
ARQUIVOS ENTOMOLÓXICOS, 25: 51
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NOTA BREVE / SHORT NOTE
Confirmation of the presence of Zelus renardii Kolenati, 1857
(Hemiptera: Reduviidae) on the Canary Islands (Spain)
Torsten van der Heyden
Immenweide 83. D-22523 Hamburg (GERMANY). e-mail: tmvdh@web.de
Key words: Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Reduviidae, Zelus renardii, Canary Islands, Spain.
Confirmación de la presencia de Zelus renardii Kolenati, 1857 (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) en las Islas Canarias
(España)
Palabras clave: Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Reduviidae, Zelus renardii, Islas Canarias, España.
Recibido: 10 de febrero de 2022 Publicado on-line: 20 de febrero de 2022
Aceptado: 14 de febrero de 2022
Recently, the invasive alien species Zelus renardii Kolenati, 1857 (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) was reported
for the first time from the Canary Islands, based on one adult specimen found in the south of Tenerife
in September 2021 (BAENA & SANTOS, 2021).
Now, the presence of the species on the Canary Islands can be confirmed: On 09-02-2022, an
adult specimen of Z. renardii was found and photographed by Camilla Lund Kristensen in Playa de las
Américas in the south of Tenerife (Fig. 1). Several photographs of the specimen were uploaded to the
online database iNaturalist (see here).
Acknowledgements
I like to thank Camilla
Lund Kristensen for allowing me
to use her photograph of Z.
renardii to illustrate this note.
Reference
BAENA, M. & SANTOS, S. 2021.
Zelus renardii Kolenati, 1857,
primera cita en las Islas
Canarias (Hemiptera, Reduvii-
dae). Revista gaditana de
Entomología, XII: 131-135.
Fig. 1.- Specimen of Zelus renardii Kolenati, 1857 from Playa de las Américas,
Tenerife. (Photo: Camilla Lund Kristensen).
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