Published February 25, 2026 | Version v1
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Reduvius miltosoma Blanchard 1842

  • 1. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), CCT La Plata, La Plata (Argentina) and División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s / n, B 1900 FWA, La Plata, Buenos Aires (Argentina) ceciliamelo @ fcnym. unlp. edu. ar; pdellape @ fcnym. unlp. edu. ar

Description

Reduvius miltosoma Blanchard, 1842

(Fig. 3 A-C)

Reduvius miltosoma Blanchard, 1842: 218, pl. 29, fig. 3.

TYPE SPECIMENS. — Lectotype, here designated. Bolivia • 1 ♂; 8655 34; 411; Reduvius miltosoma; TYPE; Zelurus miltosoma dét. B é renger J-M; MNHN-EH-EH30845.

Paralectotype. Bolivia • 1 ♀; 8655 34; MNHN-EH-EH33303.

DISTRIBUTION GIVEN BY BLANCHARD. — Santa Cruz, Bolivia.

D’ORBIGNY’S CATALOGUE NOTES. — Bolivia, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Nov. 1830 to May 1831. It is found in the interior of thick woods, on small plants, or on the branches of trees and shrubs, where, motionless, it waits for its prey, because it is carnivorous.

VALID NAME. — Zelurus miltosoma (Blanchard, 1842) (Stål 1872).

Notes

Published as part of Melo, María Cecilia & Dellapé, Pablo M., 2026, The types of the species described by Émile Blanchard in d'Orbigny's (1835 - 1847) Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale, pp. 121-138 in Zoosystema 48 (5) on page 124, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2026v48a5, http://zenodo.org/record/18784382

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Blanchard
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Reduviidae
Genus
Reduvius
Species
miltosoma
Taxon rank
species
Type status
paralectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Reduvius miltosoma Blanchard, 1842 sec. Melo & Dellapé, 2026

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