Checklist of the aquatic and semiaquatic bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha, Leptopodomorpha & Nepomorpha) of Peru Author Peralta-Argomeda, Jorge Luis Laboratorio de Invertebrados Acuáticos Continentales, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú. & Departamento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, España. Author Rodrigues, Juliana Mourão Dos Santos Laboratorio de Invertebrados Acuáticos Continentales, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú. & Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Laboratório Entomologia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Author Huamantinco-Araujo, Ana Laboratorio de Invertebrados Acuáticos Continentales, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú. Author Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo Laboratorio de Invertebrados Acuáticos Continentales, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú. & Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Laboratório Entomologia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. & Laboratorio de Invertebrados Acuáticos Continentales, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú. text Zootaxa 2024 2024-06-10 5467 1 1 72 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5467.1.1 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5467.1.1 1175-5334 11613746 9DE5E5B4-3E85-481A-8A02-F323D87D1D95 Ranatra macrophtalma Herrich-Schäffer, 1849 Geographic distribution. Panama ( Montandon 1907 ), Trinidad & Tobago ( Hynes 1948 ), Colombia ( Mayr 1866 ), Venezuela ( Montandon 1907 ), Suriname ( Mayr 1866 ), French Guiana , Brazil ( Montandon 1907 ), Peru ( Kirkaldy & Torre-Bueno 1909 ), Bolivia ( Montandon 1905b ), Paraguay ( De Carlo 1946 ). Distribution in Peru . Unknown department ( Kirkaldy & Torre-Bueno 1909 ). Notes. Originally described from “Ostindien?” (Herrich-Schäffer 1849), which was probably caused by mislabeling. Montandon (1905b) mentioned that specimens from Colombia and Suriname assigned to this species by Mayr (1866) could instead belong to R. robusta Montandon, 1905 . De Carlo (1973) synonymized R. hungerfordi Kuitert, 1949 with R. macrophtalma in a short passage of his introduction, which was ignored by Keffer (2004) . The same author and several others (e.g., Ribeiro et al. 2018 ) ignored the synonymy between R. sattleri De Carlo, 1967 and R. macrophtalma proposed by Roback & Nieser (1974) . Nieser (1975) noted that the material from Paraguay reported by De Carlo (1946 , 1964b ) probably refers to another species.