Checklist and distribution of semiaquatic and aquatic Heteroptera (Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha) occurring in Brazil 2958
Author
Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo
Author
Barbosa, Julianna Freires
Author
Ribeiro, José Ricardo Inacio
Author
Alecrim, Viviani Pereira
text
Zootaxa
2011
2011-07-08
2958
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2958.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.2958.1.1
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Buenoa platycnemis
(
Fieber, 1851
)
Geographical distribution:
United States of America
,
Mexico
,
Cuba
,
Haiti
,
Jamaica
,
Puerto Rico
,
U. S. Virgin Islands
,
Cayman Islands
,
St. Martin
, Guadeloupe, Martinique,
Colombia
,
Curaçao
,
Bonaire
,
Venezuela
,
Costa Rica
,
Trinidad & Tobago
,
Panama
,
Brazil
,
Peru
, and
Argentina
. Records from
United States
north to
Texas
and Florida are results of misidentification.
Distribution in
Brazil
: North, Northeast, Central-West, and Southeast regions (PA, MA, TO, MT, GO, RJ) (
Truxal 1953
,
1957
;
Nieser 1970b
;
Ribeiro
et al.
1998
;
Ribeiro
et al.
2010
).
Comments:
Truxal (1953)
listed the species from “
Maranhão
: Chapada” without collector data. As he specifically mentioned MA, in this case the collecting locality is not likely to be Chapada dos Guimarães (MT) as mentioned for some of Drake & Harris species, but probably Chapada das Mesas (MA). If eventually discovered that the collector of Truxal’s specimens is H. H. Smith (or that Truxal randomly associated Chapada with MA), then the correct “Chapada” is the one in MT, not in MA.
Nieser (1970b)
associated Belterra with AM, but the municipality is actually located in PA.