Aquatic and semiaquatic Heteroptera (Insecta: Hemiptera) from Iberá Natural Reserve (Corrientes Province, Argentina)
Author
Mazzucconi, Silvia Ana
Laboratorio de Entomología, IBBEA, CONICET-UBA., DBBE-FCEN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales y Agrimensura, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Corrientes, Argentina. acarmua @ hotmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1686 - 6381
Author
Reyes, Cristina Armúa De
0000-0002-1686-6381
acarmua@hotmail.com
Author
Estévez, Ana Lía
División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-03-01
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Neoplea semipicta
(
Horváth, 1918
)
Plea semipicta
Horváth, 1918
: Annls. Mus. hist.-nat. hung., 145.
Neoplea semipicta
:
Polhemus, 1992
: J.
Kansas
Entom. Soc., 441.
Material examined. Laguna Iberá RS:
1 ♀
, Iberá Lagoon, Paso Claro,
28°33’29’’S
,
57°11’37’’W
,
16.ii.2018
.
Yahaveré RS:
1 ♂
, Medina Lagoon,
13.xii.2014
.
General distribution.
Colombia
,
Brazil
,
Bolivia
,
Paraguay
, Argentina (
Moreira
et al.
2011b
).
Habitat.
Very little information exists regarding the habitat associations of
N. semipicta
. It has been collected in lagoons in association with
Pistia stratiotes
,
Pontederia crassipes
and
Egeria najas
(
Neiff & Poi de Neiff 1979
; Poi
de Neiff 1979
).
This species was previously recorded from Iberá in association with
Salvinia biloba
(
Poi de Neiff 2003
)
. During the present study, it was collected from unshaded margins with dense floating, emergent and submerged vegetation (mainly
Pontederia azurea
) in the Iberá Lagoon and Medina Lagoon.