Laboratorio de Entomologa, UNESIS, Departamento de Biologa, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogot, Colombia. .
Grupo de Entomologa Universidad de Antioquia (GEUA), Universidad de Antioquia, Medelln, Colombia. .
Zootaxa. 2021 Oct 8;5048(4):538-560. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5048.4.4.
The New World genus Castolus Stl, 1858 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) contains 16 described species. Based on material from northern Colombia we describe Castolus rafaeli sp. nov., and key all known species. The following new synonyms are proposed: Castolus nigriventris Breddin, 1904 = C. bicolor Maldonado, 1976, syn. nov.; and C. subinermis (Stl, 1862) = C. annulatus Maldonado Brailovsky, 1992, syn. nov. = Mucrolicter alienus Elkins, 1962, syn. nov. Because M. alienus is the type species of the currently monotypic genus Mucrolicter Elkins, 1962, the proposed synonymy results in the following generic synonym: Castolus Stl, 1858 = Mucrolicter Elkins, 1962, syn. nov. New country records are provided for two species: Castolus plagiaticollis Stl, 1858 is recorded new for Colombia; and Castolus rufomarginatus Champion, 1899 for Costa Rica, Colombia, and Ecuador. Additional localities are provided for species from Colombia and other Neotropical countries based on both specimens from entomological collections and observations from the citizen science initiative iNaturalist.
新世界属 Castolus Stl，1858（半翅目：异翅目：红蝽科）包含 16 个已描述的物种。基于来自哥伦比亚北部的材料，我们描述了 Castolus rafaeli 新种，并为所有已知物种制作了关键特征表。提出了以下新的同义词：Castolus nigriventris Breddin，1904 = C. bicolor Maldonado，1976，syn. nov.；和 C. subinermis（Stl，1862）= C. annulatus Maldonado Brailovsky，1992，syn. nov. = Mucrolicter alienus Elkins，1962，syn. nov. 因为 M. alienus 是目前单种属 Mucrolicter Elkins，1962 的模式种，所以拟议的同义词导致以下通用同义词：Castolus Stl，1858 = Mucrolicter Elkins，1962，syn. nov. 为两个物种提供了新的国家记录：Castolus plagiaticollis Stl，1858 是哥伦比亚的新记录；Castolus rufomarginatus Champion，1899 是哥斯达黎加、哥伦比亚和厄瓜多尔的新记录。根据昆虫学收藏的标本和公民科学倡议 iNaturalist 的观察结果，为来自哥伦比亚和其他新热带国家的物种提供了更多的地方记录。
