identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
03FB87F8FF8BFFCD74E6FD30658CD3F4.text	03FB87F8FF8BFFCD74E6FD30658CD3F4.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Zelus renardii Kolenati 1857	<div><p>Zelus renardii</p><p>is the only species of the genus that has been reported from Europe; it is endemic to Central and North America, from where it has been introduced in other parts of the world, most likely dispersed by human activities (Pinzari et al., 2018). The species is considered as one of the  Reduviidae with the biggest geographical expansion in the last years (Miralles-Ṅñez et al., 2021). In Europe, it was firstly reported from Greece (Davranoglou, 2011) and then from Spain (Baena &amp; Torres, 2012; Vivas, 2012), where it has been reported from the provinces of Barcelona, Castellón, Valencia, Alicante, Murcia, Almería, Málaga, Sevilla, Cádiz and Madrid (Baena &amp; Torres, 2012; Goula et al., 2019; Miralles-Ṅñez et al., 2021; Rodríguez Lozano et al., 2018; Vivas, 2012), being probably settled in a large part of the Iberian Peninsula (Vivas, 2012) since it has been already reported from Southern Portugal (van der Heyden &amp; Grosso-Silva, 2020). It acts as an exotic invasive species because of being adaptable, highly dispersive and able to colonize new areas readily (Davranoglou, 2011). Some bites on humans due to this species have been reported from Spain which may be because it is becoming more frequent, mainly in anthropic environments but also in agricultural ones (Miralles-Ṅñez et al., 2021). The pioneering nature of this species (Weirauch et al., 2012), its dispersal more than likely by human activities and its tolerance to adverse conditions, such as high temperature, could create direct competition with other indigenous reduviids of the Palaearctic region (Pinzari et al., 2018) and it can go hand in hand, and even increase, with global warming.</p><p>Due to the observed predaceous behaviour of this species on  Dermestidae larvae, its role as necrophilous within the entomosarcosaprophagous fauna becomes obvious.  Zelus renardii is considered a generalist predator, the adults can feed on almost any arthropod they can catch (Pinzari et al., 2018). Although it is not surprising due to its generalist nature as a predator, as far as we know  Dermestidae have never been reported as prey for  Z. renardii; thus, the list of species on which it can feed is enlarged. The interest of such predation, from a forensic perspective, deals with the potential capacity of removing a big amount of  Dermestidae larvae from the corpse which can modify the faunal succession and the decomposition itself, even compromising the estimation of minimum PMI when considering the entomological evidence, as it occurs in the case of  Nasonia vitripennis (Walker, 1836) ( Hymenoptera:  Pteromalidae) affecting  Diptera larvae (Charabizde &amp; Hedouin, 2014).</p><p>Zelus renardii had not previously been reported from a corpse; thus, this is the first forensic case on record it is involved in. Our finding extends the global list of insects of forensic importance, emphasizing the need to identify all entomological evidence in forensic practice since all species can provide information related to the case.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FB87F8FF8BFFCD74E6FD30658CD3F4	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	García, María-Dolores;Fernández, Antonio;Gamarra, Purificación;Outerelo, Raimundo;Arnaldos, María-Isabel	García, María-Dolores, Fernández, Antonio, Gamarra, Purificación, Outerelo, Raimundo, Arnaldos, María-Isabel (2023): Zelus renardii Kolenati, 1857 (Hemiptera, Reduviidae), a new member of the entomosarcosaprophagous fauna. Arquivos Entomolóxicos 27: 35-40, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12812934
