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Группа состоит из двух видов: Zelus inconstans Champion, 1898 и Zelus mimus Stål 1862.
Описание генитальных различий самцов: Members of this group, consisting of only two species, exhibit a highly unique paramere and a medial process of the pygophore. The paramere is slender and apically curved dorsad at an angle of nearly ninety degrees. The medial process, as is especially evident in Z. inconstans, possesses a simple posterior liplike fold at the apex; its lateral margins are subparallel and not broadened significantly at the base. Both have a semi-cylindrical dorsal phallothecal sclerite which is modified by a fold running obliquely toward the base from the middle of the lateral margins. Both species, being quite small, exhibit the usual reduction of setal tracts common to nearly all small species. Comparative views of male genitalia are shown in Fig. 4.
A taxonomic monograph of the assassin bug genus Zelus Fabricius (Hemiptera: Reduviidae): 71 species based on 10,000 specimens expand article info. Guanyang Zhang, Elwood R Hart, Christiane Weirauch
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