The assassin bug Zelus luridus (Heteroptera: Reduviidae) in Michigan's Upper Peninsula

On 17 July 1992, an assassin bug (Zelus luridus Stal) was flushed from the stomach of a smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) collected in West Long Lake of the University of Notre Dame Environmental Research Center, Gogebic County, Michigan. The bass measured 237 mm in total length and weighed 187 g. Although Z. luridus was reported by McPherson (1992) from 26 of 67 counties in Michigan's Lower Peninsula, he did not list it from the Upper Peninsula. Including Z. luridus, only 5 of 28 reduviids known from Michigan have been collected in the Upper Peninsula, a region that apparently has been under-collected (McPherson, 1992).