Gerromorpha (Insecta, Hemiptera, Heteroptera) from eastern Maranhão state, northeastern Brazil
Author
Lima Franco, Cleilton
Author
Mourão dos Santos Rodrigues, Juliana
Author
Silva de Azevêdo, Carlos Augusto
Author
Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo
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http://dx.doi.org/10.15560/17.2.551
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10.15560/17.2.551
1809-127X
Tachygerris adamsoni
(Drake, 1942)
Figure 7A–C
New records.
BRAZIL
•
1 ♂
,
2 ♀
;
Maranhão
,
Caxias
,
Barragem
stream;
−04.87562
,
−043.09894
;
10 Dec. 2019
;
C.L. Franco
et al. leg.; LEAq 00245, 00256
.
Identification.
Our male specimen was identified based on the venter of the fore femur without a basal tubercle (
Fig. 7B
), but instead with a fringe of setae on this area. The females have the posterior margin of abdominal sternum VII without projections, distinctly shorter than the posterior projection of the last abdominal laterotergite (
Nieser 1970
; Morales-Castaño and Molano- Rendón 2009).
Distribution in
Brazil
.
AM, PA, MA*, PI, MT, MG, RJ.
Subfamily
Rhagadotarsinae
Rheumatobates
Bergroth, 1892
Rheumatobates bonariensis
(Berg, 1898)
New records.
BRAZIL
•
38 ♂
,
22 ♀
;
Maranhão
,
Codó
,
Saco river
;
−04.62482
,
−043.90249
;
02 Oct. 2019
;
C.L. Franco
et al. leg.; LEAq 00277
.
Identification.
Our material was identified based on the males, which bear antennomere I not incrassate, longer than the others; fore femur without anterior tuft of stout setae or ventral row of long stout spines; hind femur straight; and venter of abdominal segments VII– VIII deeply longitudinally grooved (
Hungerford 1954
).
Distribution in
Brazil
.
MA*, MT, SP, SC, RS.
Subfamily
Trepobatinae
Tribe
Trepobatini
Halobatopsis
Bianchi, 1896