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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Ranatra rabida
White, 1879
Ranatra rabida
White, 1879a
: Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 270–271.
Material examined. San Ignacio RS:
1 ♂
,
1 ♀
, vehicle path, roadside ditches,
27°54’0.24’’S
,
56°53’6.42’’W
,
17.xi.2018
;
1 ♂
,
1 ♀
, Camping Monterrey, Aguará pedestrian path, marshland,
27°52’14.10’’S
,
56°52’59.70’’W
,
18.xi.2018
.
General distribution.
Brazil
,
Paraguay
,
Argentina
,
Uruguay
(
De Carlo 1946
;
Moreira
et al.
2011b
).
Habitat.
Little information exists regarding the habitat associations of this species. It has been recorded only from rivers (
White 1879a
;
Montandon 1895
).
At the INR,
R. rabida
was collected from the unshaded margins of marshlands and roadside ditches with dense floating, emergent, and submerged vegetation.
Remarks.
This is the first record of
R. rabida
from INR. It was collected together with
R. sjostedti
.
This species was previously recorded from
Corrientes Province
by
De Carlo (1946
,
1959
,
1964
a
, 1973),
Nieser (1975)
and
López Ruf
et al.
(2003)
.