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
2022
2022-03-01
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Neoplea argentina
(
Drake & Chapman, 1953
)
Plea argentina
Drake & Chapman, 1953
: Proc. Biol. Soc.
Washington
, 58–59.
Neoplea argentina
:
Bachmann, 1968
: Revta. Soc. Ent. Arg., 122, 127.
Material examined. San Ignacio RS:
4 ♂
,
2 ♀
, Camping Monterrey, Aguará pedestrian path, long walkway, marshes,
27°52’14.58’’S
,
56°52’59.76’’W
,
18.xi.2018
.
Yahaveré RS:
1 ♂
, Caaby Aguilar, roadside marshes,
28°24’03.4”S
,
57°51’31.3”W
,
8.xi.2015
.
General distribution.
Argentina (
Bachmann & López Ruf 1994
).
Habitat.
Neoplea argentina
has been found in lagoons, lakes, marshes, and in standing or slow-moving water of streams and rivers (
Merlassino & Schnack 1979
;
Poi de Neiff 1983
;
Bachmann & López Ruf 1994
;
Poi de Neiff & Neiff 2006
;
Fontanarrosa
et al.
2013
).
This species was previously recorded from Iberá in association with
Egeria najas
,
Salvinia biloba
and
Potamogeton sp.
(
Poi de Neiff 1993
,
2003
). During the present study, it was collected from marshes with dense floating, emergent and submerged vegetation (mainly
S. biloba
) in unshaded and shaded areas. This species was collected in association with the above mentioned vegetation in the Paraná River (
Argentina
) (
Poi de Neiff & Neiff 2006
).
Remarks.
Neoplea argentina
was collected in INR together with
N. maculosa
. The records from
Brazil
need confirmation (
Bachmann 1968
;
Nieser & Melo 1997
;
Heckman 1998
;
Souza
et al.
2006
).