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A New Species and a New Synonymy of the Neotropical Genus Seridentus Osborn (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Stenopodainae)

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Based on the examination of the type specimens, the following new subjective synonymy is proposed in the Neotropical assassin bug genus Seridentus Osborn, 1904: S. denticulatus Osborn, 1904 = Gnathobleda maculosa Haviland, 1931, syn. nov. Lectotypes of the two nominal species are designated. The type depositories of S. denticulatus, obscurely given in the original description of this species, are confirmed to be the C.A. Triplehorn Insect Collection, Ohio State University, Columbus and the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. A new species, S. musettiae sp. nov., is described from Cartago, Costa Rica, representing the northernmost distribution record of the genus. A revised key to the species of Seridentus is provided.

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Acknowledgements

We express our gratitude to Mr. Mick D. Webb and Ms. Valerie A. Lemaître (BMNH) for their kind help during our examination of specimens of Reduviidae. We sincerely appreciate Mr. David Bettman, Ms. Rachel Diaz-Bastin (CASC), Ms. Vanessa Verdecia (CMNH), and Dr. Luciana Musetti (OSUC) for the information and/or photographs of types.

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This work was supported by a grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31730086).

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    Zhuo Chen, Hu Li & Wanzhi Cai

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Zhuo Chen: conception and design, material preparation, data collection, writing (original draft preparation); Hu Li: methodology, writing (reviewing and editing); Wanzhi Cai: conception and design, supervision, writing (reviewing and editing), project administration, funding acquisition.

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Chen, Z., Li, H. & Cai, W. A New Species and a New Synonymy of the Neotropical Genus Seridentus Osborn (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Stenopodainae). Neotrop Entomol 51, 270–281 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-022-00945-y

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