Black and red Coreidae with yellow strip, Montezuma, Colombia

Found around the Montezuma lodge in Colombia, at night. Head is red, shield overall dark with red markings and a yellow horizontal stripe.

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Pudding4brains

Lion

Hi Ferdy,
This is a Coreidae, it's most probably a Hypselonotus and there are even a few very similar images on the internet named Hypselonotus interruptus, but the patterns on the "original" interruptus are quite different, so either it is a highly variable species or the images simply carry a wrong ID. Cheers, Arp
P.S. Seems it is highly variable - see this note:
http://coreoidea.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/SupplTaxonInfo.aspx?SupplTaxonInfoID=2319
referring to this publication:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39873380#page/243/mode/1up Posted 7 years ago, modified 7 years ago
1. Ferdy Christant
  
  Lion
  
  Thanks a lot, I was hoping you would take a look at it. Title updated. Posted 7 years ago
2. 1. Pudding4brains
    
    Lion
    
    From the various publications I just read, this colour pattern coincides nicely with the "balteatus" form that is indeed known from Colombia and Venezuela (originally described as species in its own right: Hypselonotus balteatus Horváth, 1892). Also, your specimen keys out to interruptus unambivalently in the key presented by Whitehead (1974) so, I'll go ahead and ID your image accordingly :o) Cheers! Arp Posted 7 years ago
  2. 1. Ferdy Christant
      
      Lion
      
      Stunning, wasn't expecting this getting to the species level! Thanks so much for the hard work. I'll now won't hold back into sharing obscure bugs, hope you don't mind ;) Posted 7 years ago, modified 7 years ago
    2. Ferdy Christant
      
      Lion
      
      Correction: I obviously meant to say that I WON'T hold back :) Posted 7 years ago
    3. 1. Pudding4brains
        
        Lion
        
        No DON'T - but no guarantees Ferdy, consider this a lucky shot ;o) Posted 7 years ago
      2. Ferdy Christant
        
        Lion
        
        No worries, I'm happy with any help, including just getting the family identified. One day in a far future I very much want JD to support partial identifications. Posted 7 years ago

The Hypselonotus interruptus

Hypselonotus interruptus is a true bug of the family Coreidae with highly variable, somewhat geographically correlated colour patterns, most of which at some point were originally described as distinct species.

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Similar species: True Bugs

Species identified by Pudding4brains