%0 Journal Article %T New record and ecological notes of Phimophorus spissicornis (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Phimophorinae) in Colombia %A CHAVERRA-RODR¨ªGUEZ %A DUVERNEY %A FORERO %A DIMITRI %A JARAMILLO O %A NICOL¨¢S %A TRIANA CH %A OMAR %J Revista Colombiana de Entomolog¨ªa %D 2010 %I Sociedad Colombiana de Entomolog¨ªa %X phimophorus spissicornis, the enigmatic and exclusively neotropical representative of the phimophorinae (heteroptera: reduviidae), is recorded for the first time from colombia. six adult specimens and one nymph were collected in the municipalities of vegach¨ª and san carlos, department of antioquia. in both localities p. spissicornis was collected from palms (arecaceae) in associati¨®n with rhodnius pallescens (reduviidae: triatominae). phimophorus spissicornis was found on the axils of palm fronds of attalea butyracea and oenocarpus bataua. dorsal habitus illustrations of the male, female, and late instar nymph of p. spissicornis are provided. %K attalea %K rhodnius pallescens %K arecaceae. %U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0120-04882010000100027&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en