Castolus lineatus Maldonado 1976
Creators: name: Forero, Dimitri
name: Mejía-Soto, Andrés
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Reduviidae
Castolus
Castolus lineatus

description: Castolus lineatus Maldonado, 1976
(Figs. 5B, 9A)
Remarks. At MEFLG several specimens of C. lineatus were found, although all were identified as “ C. subinermis ”. As shown above, C. subinermis is a rather different Central American species, representing all specimens a misidentification. Recently, immature forms of C. lineatus were described from Colombia (Laiton Jiménez et al. 2018).
Distribution. This species was described from Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia (Maldonado 1976), although no precise localities were given in the original description from Costa Rica or Colombia. A single additional locality in Huila, Colombia, was provided by Laiton Jiménez (2018). New localities from Colombia are provided here. In addition, several records from Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia based on photographs from iNaturalist are included given that this species can be easily identified by its dorsal coloration. Based on these records, C. lineatus is also recorded for the first time from Ecuador, considerably extending south the distribution of this species (Fig. 5B).
Material examined. COLOMBIA — Antioquia • 1 ♀; Medellín; [06.2365°N, 75.5771°W]; 1538m; Jul 1943; F. Gallego leg.; No. catal. 1039; C-32#64 (MEFLG) • 1 ♂; V.[alle de] Medellín; [06.2365°N, 75.5771°W]; Jul 1945; Gallego leg.; en pared (MEFLG) • 1 ♀; Guadalupe; [06.8617°N, 75.2238°W]; May 1942; Gallego leg.; No. catal. 1039 (MEFLG) • 1 ♂; Caldas; [06.0545°N, 75.6266°W]; 1700m; Ago 1989; J. Vallejo leg.; en arbusto (MEFLG) • 1 ♂; Pto. Araujo; [06.5189°N, 74.1056°W]; Ago 1945, Gallego leg. (MEFLG) • 1 ♀; La Estrella, vereda San Jose; [06.1311°N, 75.6208°W]; 1775m; 3 Sep 2007; S. Ramirez leg.; mano [manual collecting] (MEFLG) — Cundinamarca • 1 ♂; Venecia, vereda Espíritu Santo, ~ 1.7km SebE de Venecia; 04.0825°N, 74.4636°W; 1864m; 16–20 Sep 2019; G. Troncoso, J. Jiménez, S. Infante leg.; colecta manual, ambiente semiurbano; MPUJ _ ENT0068896 (MPUJ _ ENT) — Huila • 1 #f; La Plata, vereda El Jazmín, finca Los Robles; 2°20’24.8”N, 75°57’37.4”W; 1938m; 2017; L. Laiton leg.; en cultivo de Coffea arabica (MPUJ _ ENT).
OTHER EXAMINED MATERIAL (iNaturalist observations): COLOMBIA — Antioquia • 1 ♀; Copacabana, vereda El Salado; 06.3585°N, 75.4818°W; 13 May 2017; A. Arroyave leg.; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/21706177 • 1 adult, sex unknown; Envigado; 06.1783°N, 75.5774°W; 23 Jun 2020; S. Graciano leg.; https:// www.inaturalist.org/observations/52314796 • 1 adult, sex unknown; Girardota; 06.3616°N, 75.4473°W; 8 Jun 2013; J. S. Restrepo leg; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/78740908 • 1 ♀; vía Manga Arriba, Girardota; 06.3606°N, 75.46084°W; 28Abr 2019; D. Jiménez leg.; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/24221472 • 1 adult, sex unknown; La Florida, Itagüí; 06.1574°N, 75.6252°W; 5 Sep 2020; N. Zambrano leg.; https://www.inaturalist. org/observations/58602229 • 1 adult, sex unknown; Medellín; 06.2643°N, 75.5506°W; 18 Jun 2018; D. Garcí leg.; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/13552625 • 1 ♀; Medellín; 06.2173°N, 75.5944°W; 17 Jul 2019; E. Ríos leg.; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/29082343 • 1 adult, sex unknown; Medellín; 06.2083°N, 75.5529°W; 7 Nov 2019; N. Lewis leg.; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/35408114 • 1 adult, sex unknown; Medellín; 06.2292°N, 75.6090°W; 14 Jun 2019; M. J. Arias leg.; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/42911216 • 1 adult, sex unknown; Medellín; 06.2377°N, 75.5454°W; 16 May 2020; A. N. Cardozo leg.; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/46392911 • 1 adult, sex unknown; Medellín; 06.2330°N, 75.5630°W; 18 Jun 2020; G. A. Rodríguez leg.; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/50049789 • 1 adult, sex unknown; Medellín; 06.2476°N, 75.56581°W; 25 Aug 2020; I. Tamayo leg.; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/57919847 • 1 adult, sex unknown; Medellín; 06.2503°N, 75.6071°W; 11 Oct 2020; L. Chamorro leg.; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/62301964 — Bogotá D.C. • 1 adult, sex unknown; Bogotá, San Cristóbal; 04.5493°N, 74.0909°W; 7 May 2021; H. N. Ussa leg; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/79194233 — Boyacá • 1 adult, sex unknown; Villa de Leyva; 05.6352°N, 73.5344°W; 23 May 2020; L. S. Quintero leg.; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/47060919 • 1 adult, sex unknown; Jenesano; 05.3842°N, 73.3645°W; 13 May 2021; C. Cortes leg.; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/78601379 — Caldas • 1 adult, sex unknown; Sipirra, Riosucio; 05.4298°N, 75.69081°W; 20 Jun 2014; S. Arango leg.; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/42809383 — Santander • 1 adult, sex unknown; El Carmen de Chucurí; 06.6266°N 73.5954°W; 8 Ago 2018, J.D. Quiroga leg; https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/23193642 • 1 adult, sex unknown; Comuna 7 La Ciudadela, Bucaramanga; 07.1049°N, 73.1208°W; 18 Jun 2020; J. Rodriguez leg.; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/50618627 • 1 adult, sex unknown; Vélez; 06.0094°N, 73.6674°W; 26 Jun 2019; V. Moncada leg.; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/27703198. COSTA RICA — Alajuela • 1 ♀; Bijagua de Upala, Las Heliconias Lodge and Hanging Gardens; 10.7131°N, 85.0410°W; 9 Abr 2016; J. M. Tobin leg.; https://www.inaturalist.org/people/jmtobin6975. ECUADOR — Los Ríos • 1 adult, sex unknown; Finca María José, Banaloly, Babahoyo; 01.7117°S, 79.5249°W; 17 Sep 2020; F. Campos leg.; https://www.inaturalist. org/observations/60393117 • 1 adult, sex unknown; Babahoyo; 01.7961°S, 79.5205°W; 10 Dec 2020; A. Hurtares leg.; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/66517882 — Manabí • 1 adult, sex unknown; Sube y Baja, Flavio Alfaro; 00.3355°S, 79.7590°W; 13 Jun 2020; V. Herrera leg.; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/57404762. PANAMA — Colón • 1 adult, sex unknown; Gamboa; 09.1164°, 79.6965°W; 27 Abr 2020; S. Wench leg.; https:// www.inaturalist.org/observations/44502669.
description: Published as part of Forero, Dimitri & Mejía-Soto, Andrés, 2021, A striking sexually dimorphic new species of Castolus (Hemiptera: Heteroptera Reduviidae) from Colombia, with new records from Neotropical countries and taxonomic notes on the genus, pp. 538-560 in Zootaxa 5048 (4) on pages 552-553, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5048.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5556768