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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Mesovelia bila
Jaczewski, 1928
Mesovelia bila
Jaczewski, 1928
: Ann. Mus. Zool. Polonici, 77–79.
General distribution.
Brazil
, Argentina (
Damgaard
et al.
2012
).
Habitat.
Little information exists regarding the habitat associations of this species.
Jaczewski (1928)
reported the first collections of
M. bila
from a very shallow and small pool in a forest. Subsequent reports of collections were made from lentic habitats, on floating aquatic plants in small pools (
Harris & Drake 1941
) and at the margins of unshaded marshlands with dense vegetation (
Torres
et al.
2007
). This species was also collected from lotic habitats, in standing or slow-moving water along the margins of streams and artificial channels with emergent and submerged vegetation (
Fernández & López Ruf 2006
) and in shaded streams without aquatic vegetation (
Torres
et al.
2007
).
In INR, specimens were collected from the margins of the Iberá Lagoon in shallow waters with emergent and floating vegetation (Estévez
et al.
2003).