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Buenoa koina Nieser & Pelli 1994

  • 1. Laboratório de Biodiversidade Entomológica, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • 2. Laboratório de Entomologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Description

Buenoa koina Nieser & Pelli, 1994

Fig. 10 D

Buenoa koina Nieser & Pelli, 1994: 3, 4, figs 8–10 [original description].

Diagnosis.

Medium-sized species, male length ~ 5.9 mm. Synthlipsis wide, slightly> 1 / 2 of vertex width. Labial prong subequal to slightly shorter than third labial article, originating proximally on article. Fore femur with weak stridulatory area containing 4–6 ridges.

Taxonomic notes.

Buenoa koina is one of smallest species of the genus with wide synthlipsis. It can be distinguished from the most similar species, B. pallens (Champion, 1901) and B. pallipes (Fabricius, 1803), by the pronotum not tricarinate and the shorter length of the labial prongthan in the two aforementioned species.

Distribution.

Brazil: BA [new record], MG (Nieser and Pelli 1994; Nieser and Melo 1997; Carrenho et al. 2020).

Material examined.

Brazil,! BA, 2018: 4 ♂, 1 ♀: Mucugê municipality, PNCD, Água 3 station, 19. VIII. 2018. -12.9908, -41.3507. J. M. S. Rodrigues col., CEIOC 81921. Same state, 2021: 1 ♂, 2 ♀: same data, except: Palmeiras municipality, Rio Preto, Água 1 station, 820 m, 05. V. 2021. -12.6036, -41.5250. J. M. S. Rodrigues & J. F. Barbosa cols., CEIOC 81920.

Notes

Published as part of Jordão, Rafael, Barbosa, Julianna Freires & Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, 2025, Survey of the Notonectidae (Insecta, Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Nepomorpha) from northeastern Brazil, pp. 245-288 in ZooKeys 1233 on pages 245-288, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1233.120598

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
CEIOC
Material sample ID
CEIOC 81920 , CEIOC 81921
Event date
2018-08-19 , 2021-05-05
Verbatim event date
2018-08-19 , 2021-05-05
Scientific name authorship
Nieser & Pelli
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Notonectidae
Genus
Buenoa
Species
koina
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Buenoa koina Nieser, 1994 sec. Jordão, Barbosa & Moreira, 2025

References

  • Nieser N, Pelli A (1994) Two new Buenoa (Heteroptera: Notonectidae) from Minas Gerais (Brazil). Storkia 3: 1-4.
  • Champion GC (1901) Insecta: Rhynchota (Hemiptera - Heteroptera). Biologia Centrali-Americana 2: 1-385.
  • Nieser N, Pelli A (1994) Two new Buenoa (Heteroptera: Notonectidae) from Minas Gerais (Brazil). Storkia 3: 1–4.
  • Nieser N, Melo AL (1997) Os heterópteros aquáticos de Minas Gerais. Guia introdutório com chave de identificação para as espécies de Nepomorpha e Gerromorpha. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, 177 pp.
  • Carrenho R, Rodrigues HDD, de Lima AC, Schwertner CF (2020) Type specimens of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) housed in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 60: 1–16. https://doi.org/10.11606/1807-0205/2020.60.17