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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4
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Lethocerus annulipes
(
Herrich-Schaeffer, 1845
)
Belostoma annulipes
Herrich-Schaeffer, 1845
: Wanzenart. Ins., 28.
Lethocerus annulipes
:
Kirkaldy & Torre-Bueno 1909
: Proc. Ent. Soc.
Washington
, 188.
Material examined. Laguna Iberá RS:
6 ♂
, Fernández Lagoon,
11.xii.2014
.
San Ignacio RS:
1 ♀
, light trap,
27°49’26.52’’S
,
56°50’52.26’’W
,
16.xi.2018
.
General distribution.
Mexico
,
Belize
,
Guatemala
,
Honduras
,
Nicaragua
,
Costa Rica
,
Panama
, the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles,
Colombia
,
Venezuela
,
Guyana
,
Suriname
, French Guiana,
Brazil
,
Ecuador
,
Paraguay
,
Argentina
,
Uruguay
(
Nieser 1975
;
Moreira
et al.
2011b
).
Habitat.
Lethocerus annulipes
has been found in the margins of pools, marshes, ponds, lakes and lagoons exposed to sunlight and with floating, emergent or submerged vegetation (
Nieser 1975
;
Armúa de Reyes & Estévez 1999
,
2016
;
Melo & Nieser 2004
;
Perez Goodwyn 2006
). This species has also been collected in standing or slow-moving water along the margins of streams and in rivers which are slow to moderately fast flowing, with or without aquatic vegetation and in shaded or unshaded areas (
Roback & Nieser 1974
;
Armúa de Reyes & Estévez 1999
,
2016
;
Melo & Nieser 2004
;
Perez Goodwyn 2006
). It has also been taken at lights (
Nieser 1975
;
Almeida
et al.
2019
). This species was collected together with
L. maximus
in the Paraná River (
Argentina
) in association with
Salvinia sp.
and
Pontederia crassipes
(
Armúa de Reyes & Estévez 2016
)
.
At the INR, specimens were collected in the Fernández Lagoon and Iberá Lagoon (
Armúa de Reyes & Estévez 1999
,
2016
). During the present study, this species was collected from the margins of the Fernández Lagoon, in shallow water with submerged, emergent and floating vegetation. One specimen was also taken at a light in San Ignacio Ranger Station.
Remarks.
This species was also recorded from INR by
Perez Goodwyn (2006)
.