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
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Rheumatobates crassifemur crassifemur
Esaki, 1926
Rheumatobates crassifemur
Esaki, 1926
: Ann. Mus. Nation. Hungar., 149–153.
Material examined. Galarza RS:
2 ♂
,
3 ♀
, overflow channel in Hermanos Fleita field,
18.iv.2013
.
General distribution.
Panama
,
Colombia
,
Brazil
,
Bolivia
,
Paraguay
, Argentina (
Moreira
et al.
2011b
).
Habitat.
This species has been found in slow to moderately fast-flowing streams with or without aquatic vegetation, rivers, ponds, lagoons and lakes (
Hungerford 1954
;
Mazzucconi & Bachmann 1995
;
Aristizábal-García 2002
;
Souza
et al.
2006
;
Molano-Rendón
et al.
2008
;
Moreira
et al.
2011c
;
Dias-Silva
et al.
2013
).
Rheumatobates
c.
crassifemur
has also been collected on quiet brackish waters of pools at the mouth of streams emptying into the sea in
Panama
(
Drake & Hottes 1951
).
At the INR, this species was collected from the margins of overflow channels with dense emergent and submerged vegetation.
Remarks.
This is the first record of
R. c.
crassifemur
from INR. This species was previously recorded from
Corrientes Province
by
Bachmann (1966b)
,
Mazzucconi & Bachmann (1995)
, and
Mazzucconi (1999)
.