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Merragata hebroides White 1877

  • 1. Laboratório de Entomologia, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • 2. Laboratório de Entomologia, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. & Laboratório de Insetos Aquáticos, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Seropédica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • 3. Museu de Entomologia, Departamento de Entomologia, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
  • 4. Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5242, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 69007 Lyon, France.

Description

Merragata hebroides White, 1877

Fig. 23C, F

Comments. So far, only this species and M. sessoris Drake & Harris, 1943 have been recorded from South America east of the Andes. Our material was identified based on the shape of the male paramere, which was compared with the drawing provided by Drake & Chapman (1958: fig. 4b).

New records. BRAZIL — Espírito Santo • Colatina, pond; alt. 130 m; −19.3050, −40.7519; 25. VI.2022; JC Santos, JMS Rodrigues, NO Paiva, N Nery, CL Rodrigues leg.; 1 male, CEIOC 82206 • Ecoporanga, swamp; alt. 224 m; −18.2991, −40.7495; 21. IV.2023; JMS Rodrigues, NO Paiva, FFF Moreira, IS Medeiros, CL Rodrigues leg.; 1 female, CEIOC 82940.

Distribution in Brazil. AL, AM, CE, ES*, MA, MS, MT, SE.

Notes

Published as part of Rodrigues, Juliana Mourão Dos Santos, Cordeiro, Isabelle Da Rocha Silva, Floriano, Carla Fernanda Burguez, Paiva, Nathália De Oliveira, Magalhães, Oséias Martins, Júnior, Evaldo Alves Joaquim, Martins, Thaynara De Souza, Silva, Rafaella Cardoso Da, Siqueira, Gabriel Vieira, Salles, Frederico Falcão, Viala, Séverine, Khila, Abderrahman & Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, 2023, Descriptions of new species and new records of water bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha & Nepomorpha) from southeastern Brazil, pp. 1-86 in Zootaxa 5393 (1) on page 35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5393.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10437804

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References

  • Drake, C. J. & Chapman, H. C. (1958) New Neotropical Hebridae, including a catalogue of the American species (Hemiptera). Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 48, 317 - 326.