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.
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2024-06-10
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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.