Dimitri Forero

Dimitri Forero, Colombian entomologist.

Laboratorio de Entomología, Unidad de Ecología y Sistemática, Departamento de Biología, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Forero, D., Weirauch, C. & Baena, M. 2004. Synonymy of the reduviid (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) genus Torrealbaia (Triatominae) with Amphibolus (Harpactorinae), with notes on Amphibolus venator (Klug, 1830). Zootaxa 670: 1–12. Abstract & excerpt. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.670.1.1 . ResearchGate Reference page.

Forero, D. & Weirauch, C. 2005. Synonymy of Harpinoderes cicheroi Martínez & Carcavallo, 1989 with Aradomorpha crassipes Champion, 1899 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae). Zootaxa 950: 1–4. Abstract & excerpt. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.950.1.1 . ResearchGate Reference page.

Weirauch, C. & Forero, D. 2007. Kiskeya palassaina, new genus and new species of Saicinae (Heteroptera: Reduviidae) from the Dominican Republic. Zootaxa 1468: 57–68. Abstract & excerpt. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1468.1.2 . ResearchGate Reference page.
Weirauch, C. & Forero, D. 2007. Kiskeyana new replacement name for the assassin bug Kiskeya (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae). Zootaxa 1530: 68–68. Abstract & excerpt. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1530.1.7 . Reference page.

Berniker, L., Szerlip, S., Forero, D. & Weirauch, C. 2011. Revision of the crassipes and pictipes species groups of Apiomerus Hahn (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae). Zootaxa 2949: 1–113. Preview DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2949.1.1 ResearchGate Reference page.
Forero, D. 2011. Classification of Harpactorinae assassin bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae). Boletin del Museo Entomologico Francisco Luis Gallego 3(1): 9–24. PDF Reference page.

Forero, D. & Weirauch, C. 2012. Comparative genitalic morphology in the New World resin bugs Apiomerini (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Reduviidae, Harpactorinae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 59(1): 5–41. DOI: 10.1002/mmnd.201200001 Reference page.

Castro-Huertas, V. & Forero, D. 2014: First record of the genus Tagalis Stål, 1860 (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Saicinae) from Colombia with the description of two new species. Zootaxa 3838(4): 475–485. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3838.4.6 Reference page.

Forero, D. & Castro-Huertas, V. 2015. What is Neoschidium Mukherjee, Ambrose, Saha, and Bal, 2014 (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae: Metapterini)? A reflection on taxonomic practices. Zootaxa 3955(2): 295–298. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3955.2.8. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Gil-Santana, H. & Forero, D. 2015. Aristathlus imperatorius Bergroth, a newly recognized synonym of Reduvius iopterus Perty, with the new combination Aristathlus iopterus (Perty, 1834) (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae) . Biodiversity Data Journal 3: e5152. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.3.e5152. Reference page.
Zhang, J-X., Weirauch, C., Zhang, G-Y. & Forero, D. 2015. Molecular phylogeny of Harpactorinae and Bactrodinae uncovers complex evolution of sticky trap predation in assassin bugs (Heteroptera: Reduviidae). Cladistics 32(5): 538–554. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12140 Reference page.

Morales, I., Ferreira, P.S.F. & Forero, D. 2016. Taxonomic revision of Collaria Provancher, 1872 (Hemiptera: Miridae) with the description of a new species from the Afrotropical region. Zootaxa 4138(2): 201–246. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4138.2.1. Reference page.
Morales, I. & Forero, D. 2016. The genus Nabidomiris (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae): review of the species and description of a new species from South Africa. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 56(2): 507-516. Online Reference page.

Castro-Huertas, V. & Forero, D. 2017. Small range distributions in the high Andes: two new species of Liaghinella (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae) from Colombia. Zootaxa 4277(3): 399–412. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4277.3.5. Reference page.
Stonis, J.R., Remeikis, A., Diškus, A., Forero, D. & Torres, N.C. 2017. A report on Lamiaceae-feeding Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera) from South America. Zootaxa 4338(1): 128–140. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4338.1.6. Reference page.

Forero, D., Rodríguez, J. & Ocampo, V. 2018. A new species of Carvalhomiris from Colombia with an assessment of its phylogenetic position (Heteroptera, Miridae, Orthotylinae). Pp 197–214 In: Wheeler, A.G. Jr. (Ed.) 2018. A Festschrift Recognizing Thomas J. Henry for a Lifetime of Contributions to Heteropteran Systematics. Zookeys 796: 1–408. Reference page. . DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.796.22058 Reference page.

Lapischies, R., Forero, D., Barcellos, A. & Salomão, R. 2019. A new species of Pyrrhosphodrus (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) from the Caatinga ecosystem in Brazil, with notes on the genus. Zootaxa 4543(3): 388–400. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4543.3.4 Reference page.
Rodríguez-Serrano, J. & Forero, D. 2019. A remarkable new species of Eucyphonia (Hemiptera: Membracidae) from Boyacá, Colombia. Zootaxa 4557(3): 494–500. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4557.3.4 ResearchGate Reference page.

Castro-Huertas, V., Grazia, J., Forero, D., Fernández, F. & Schwertner, C.F. 2022. Stink bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) of Colombia: An annotated checklist of species. Zootaxa 5097(1): 1–88. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5097.1.1. Reference page.

Standring, S., Forero, D. & Weirauch, C. 2023. Untangling the assassin's web: Phylogeny and classification of the spider-associated Emesine complex (Hemiptera: Reduviidae). Systematic Entomology 49(1): 1–14. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12603 Reference page.

Masonick, P., Knyshov, A., Gordon, E.R.L., Forero, D., Hwang, W.S., Hoey-Chamberlain, R., Bush, T., Castillo, S., Hernandez, M., Ramirez, J., Standring, S., Zhang , S. & Weirauch, C. 2024. A revised classification of the assassin bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) based on combined analysis of phylogenomic and morphological data. Systematic Entomology 1–37. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12646 Reference page.

Forero, D. & Mejía-Soto, A. 2025. Filling in the gaps for assassin bugs: taxonomic notes and new records of Reduviidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Neotropical countries. Zootaxa 5584(4): 451–481. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.1 Reference page.