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Lethocerus maximus De Carlo 1938

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Laboratorio de Invertebrados Acuáticos Continentales, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú. & Departamento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, España.
  • 2. Laboratorio de Invertebrados Acuáticos Continentales, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú. & Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Laboratório Entomologia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • 3. Laboratorio de Invertebrados Acuáticos Continentales, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú.
  • 4. Laboratorio de Invertebrados Acuáticos Continentales, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú. & Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Laboratório Entomologia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. & Laboratorio de Invertebrados Acuáticos Continentales, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú.

Description

Lethocerus maximus De Carlo, 1938

Geographic distribution. Curaçao (Nieser & Alkins-Koo 1991), Trinidad & Tobago (Hynes 1948), Colombia (Cummings 1933), Venezuela (De Carlo 1938), Guyana (Uhler 1884), Suriname (De Geer 1773), French Guiana (Amyot & Serville 1843), Brazil (Cummings 1933), Peru (Perez-Goodwyn 2006), Bolivia (De Carlo 1938), Paraguay (Cummings 1933), Argentina (Río & Achával 1904).

Distribution in Peru. Loreto, Huánuco (Perez-Goodwyn 2006).

Note. South American records of L. grandis (Linnaeus, 1758) from outside the area defined by Perez-Goodwyn (2006) for that species are considered to be L. maximus by the same author.

Notes

Published as part of Peralta-Argomeda, Jorge Luis, Rodrigues, Juliana Mourão Dos Santos, Huamantinco-Araujo, Ana & Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, 2024, Checklist of the aquatic and semiaquatic bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha, Leptopodomorpha & Nepomorpha) of Peru, pp. 1-72 in Zootaxa 5467 (1) on page 29, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5467.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/11613746

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
De Carlo
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Belostomatidae
Genus
Lethocerus
Species
maximus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Lethocerus maximus Carlo, 1938 sec. Peralta-Argomeda, Rodrigues, Huamantinco-Araujo & Moreira, 2024

References

  • De Carlo, J. A. (1938) Los Belostomidos americanos. Anales del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales ' Bernardino Rivadavia' Buenos Aires, 39 (155), 189 - 260.
  • Nieser, N. & Alkins-Koo, M. (1991) The water bugs of Trinidad & Tobago. Occasional Papers, 9, 1 - 127.
  • Hynes, H. B. N. (1948) Notes on the aquatic Hemiptera-Heteroptera of Trinidad and Tobago, B. W. I., with a description of a new species of Martarega B. White (Notonectidae). Transactions of the Royal Entomologist Society of London, 99 (10), 341 - 360. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1948. tb 01225. x
  • Cummings, C. (1933) The giant water bugs (Belostomatidae, Hemiptera). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin, 21 (2), 197 - 219.
  • Uhler, P. R. (1884) Order VI. - Hemiptera. In: Kingsley, J. S. (Ed.), The standard Natural History. Vol. II. Crustacea and Insects. S. E. Cassino and Company, Boston, Massachusetts, pp. 204 - 296.
  • De Geer, C. (1773) Memoires pour servir a l'histoire des insectes. Tome troisieme. L'imprimerie de Pierre Hesselberg, Stockholm, 696 pp.
  • Perez-Goodwyn, P. J. (2006) Taxonomic revision of the subfamily Lethocerinae Lauck & Menke (Heteroptera: Belostomatidae). Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde, Serie A (Biologie), 695, 1 - 71. https: // doi. org / 10.4289 / 0013 - 8797.118.3.471
  • Rio, M. E. & Achaval, L. (1904) Geografia de la Provincia de Cordoba. Vol. 1. Compania Sud-Americana de Billetes de Banco, Buenos Aires, 568 pp.