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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2022-03-01
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Paravelia rotundanotata
(
Hungerford, 1930
)
(
Fig. 21
)
Velia rotundanotata
Hungerford, 1930
: J.
Kansas
Ent. Soc., 23–24.
Paravelia rotundanotata
:
Polhemus, 1976
: J.
Kansas
Ent. Soc., 512.
Material examined. Itatí RS:
1 ♂
,
Corriente River
,
28°44.18’S
,
58°8.70’W
,
30.iii.2014
.
General distribution.
Brazil
(
Rodrigues
et al.
2014
). La Plata (
Argentina
?) (
Coscarón 2017
).
Argentina
:
Corrientes
(this work).
Habitat.
Very little information exists regarding the biology of
P. rotundanotata
.
Hungerford (1930)
described this species from “La Plata” and
Brazil
(
Minas Gerais state
) without any mention of habitat characteristics. This species has been recorded from a river (
Rodrigues
et al.
2014
).
At the INR, only
one specimen
of
P. rotundanotata
was collected in the
Corriente River
, in open water surface beside emergent vegetation, in shaded places (
Fig. 12
)
.
Remarks.
The genus
Paravelia
contains 49 species, all of which are confined to the Neotropical region (
Polhemus
et al.
2019
;
Polhemus 2021
). So far, only four species of
Paravelia
had been recorded from Argentina (
Coscarón 2017
). The collection of
P. rotundanotata
from INR represents the first reliable record from
Argentina
, as this species was described by
Hungerford (1930)
from “La Plata” (and
Brazil
) without any mention of the country, and the first record of the genus
Paravelia
from Corrientes Province. This record extends the known range of this species from central-west and southeast
Brazil
to northeastern
Argentina
. The following combination of characters distinguishes
P. rotundanotata
from
P. anta
Mazzucconi, 2000
,
P. paxilla
(
Drake, 1957
)
, and
P. platensis
(
Berg, 1879
)
from
Argentina
: head, thorax and abdominal laterotergites with small dark spinules; antennae dark, with segment IV noticeably lighter; and males with a distinct horn-like expansion basally on the proctiger.