Tagalis Stal 1860
Creators: name: Castro-Huertas, Valentina
name: Melo, María Cecilia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Reduviidae
Tagalis

description: Tagalis Stål, 1860
Type species: Tagalis inornata Stål, 1860. By monotypy, 13 species included.
Diagnosis: First visible labial segment as long as the second one; first and second visible labial segments with a pair of spiniform processes; posterior region of anterior pronotal lobe nearly flat; scutellum with a spine apically; procoxae elongate; humeral angles flat; profemora with spines ventrally and on the upper margin of inner surface; protibiae with three or four spines; second tarsomere as long as the third one; third tarsomere slender and just slightly dilated (Castro-Huertas and Melo 2023, 2024). In addition, head glabrous; anteroventral margin of the proepisternal supracoxal lobe with a simple seta; ventral surface of procoxae with only simple setae; apex of paramere acute; and gonoplac composed by one sclerite (by fusion).
Examined material: Tagalis dichroa Castro-Huertas and Forero, 2014: one male, PANAMA: Panama province, Barro Colorado Is, 17–18.v.2015, 9°9’17 ʹʹ N 79°50’53 ʹʹ W), light trap, LT ARM 3- MAY2015 -A, A. Bobadilla et al. / BCI 1114426 (MPUJ). Tagalis drakkar Varela and Melo, 2017: one male, paratype, ARGENTINA: Misiones, Caraguata[y], i.[19]98 (MLP). Tagalis graziae Castro-Huertas and Forero, 2021: one male, holotype, COLOMBIA: Risaralda, Pueblo Rico, Montezuma Ecolodge, 5.9 km de Puerto Rico, 05.23016° N 76.08364° W, 1336 m, 2–7.ix.2018, D. Forero/Bosque húmedo [Trampa de luz UV]/ MPUJ _ENT 0065075 (MPUJ). Tagalis inornata inornata Stål, 1862: one male, PERU: Ucayali, Kirigueti (Luz), ii.[20]04, J. Williams, 73°07’08 ʹʹ W 11°38’13 ʹʹ S. (MLP); one female, ARGENTINA: Misiones, Puerto Iguazú, 4.x.1947, Col. Duret. (MLP). Tagalis inornata cubensis McAtee and Malloch, 1923: one male, PARAGUAY: Canindeyú, Res. Mbaracayú, Aguará-ñu (luz), xii.2003, O. Di lorio (MLP); one male, MEXICO: Veracruz, Los Tuxtlas, Estación de Biología, 22.iv.1985, C. Mayorga (MLP). Tagalis matamorosae Castro-Huertas and Melo, 2024: PANAMA: 1 male, Paratype, Panama Province, Barro Colorado Is., 3–4.xi.2016, light trap, LT-ARM 4-NOV2016 -B, Bobadilla, López, Ramírez/BCI144906 (MLP); one female, paratype, Panama Oeste Province, Barro Colorado Is., 27–28. xi.2019, light trap, LT-ZET 1-NOV2016 -B, Bobadilla, López, Ramírez/BCI171879 (STRI). Tagalis pagu Castro-Huertas and Melo, 2024: one female, paratype, BRASIL: Rio Grande do Sul, Santiago, 1.i.2013, Brusa, F. leg/ Tagalis pagu Castro-Huertas and Melo, 2024 (MLP). Tagalis seminigra Champion, 1898: PANAMA: one male, Panama Province, Barro Colorado Is., 16–17.iii.2018, 9°9’17 ʹʹ N 79°50’53 ʹʹ W, light trap, LT DRA- MAR 2018 -A, A. Bobadilla et al. / BCI162391 (STRI); one male, Panama Province, Barro Colorado Is., 8–9.iii.2019, 9°9’17 ʹʹ N 79°50’53 ʹʹ W, light trap, LT ARM-MAR2019-A, A. Bobadilla et al. / BCI168278 (STRI); PERU: one male, Ucayali, Kirigueti (luz), vii.2004, J. Williams, 73˚07’08“ W 11˚38’13 ʹʹ S (MLP); one female, Cuzco, Pagoreni (luz), vii.2004 Williams, 72˚54’07 ʹʹ W, 11˚42’22 ʹʹ S (MLP).
description: Published as part of Castro-Huertas, Valentina & Melo, María Cecilia, 2025, Reassessment of the Saicini phylogeny and evolution of hairy attachment structures on tarsi (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae), pp. 1-20 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 203 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae171, http://zenodo.org/record/14826033