Additions to Idiostolidae in Coscarón (2017) “ A catalogue of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) or true bugs from Argentina ”
Author
Faúndez, Eduardo I.
text
Zootaxa
2017
2017-12-15
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10.11646/zootaxa.4365.1.8
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Idiostolus insularis
(Berg, 1883)
1969: Schaefer & Wilcox, 498 [
Argentina
:
Tierra del Fuego
, distribution, description of second and four instar, descriptive notes]. Note: The localities Los Muermos and Puyehue, Osorno given in this paper as Argentinean records belong really to Chilean localities. This is probably due to some relabeling mistakes in the material examined in that series by collection curators, as was noted by
Carvajal & Faúndez (2011)
. Additionally,
Schaefer & Wilcox (1969)
described an “aberrant” specimen from Viamonte,
Argentina
(probably Viamonte in
Tierra del Fuego
). This specimen belongs to an undescribed species that the authors did not formally named as a different taxon, because of the bad condition of the only specimen available. This specimen is also different from the recently described
Idiostolus schaeferi
Faúndez,
Carvajal & Ashworth, 2014
from
Chile
.
1975
:
Schaefer & Wilcox
,
337
[
Argentina
:
Río Negro
, distribution]
.
2014
:
Faúndez
et al
.,
72
[
Argentina
, key]
.
2014
:
Faúndez
,
61
[
Tierra del Fuego
, key]
.
Remarks:
Although
Idiostolidae
is currently represented only by
I. insularis
in
Argentina
, there is at least one undescribed species (the Viamonte specimen mentioned above), and it is highly probable that
I. schaeferi
is also present in the country. Thus, the number of taxa within this family for
Argentina
should increase in the future.
Even though Coscarón’s catalogue had a cut-off date of 2014 (Coscarón, 2017); the only work published after 2014 pertaining to Andean
Idiostolidae
is a paper describing a teratological case in
I. insularis
from
Magallanes
(
Chile
) (Carvajal & Faúndez, 2016). Therefore, with the additions and annotations here provided, the catalog part for this family can be considered up-to-date.