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Ochterus acutangulus

Description

Ochterus acutangulus (Champion, 1901)

Pelogonus acutangulus Champion, 1901: 345–346, Pl. XX: fig. 11 (key, original description, illustration). HOLOTYPE: ♀, Guatemala: ‘ Rio Naranjo’ (BMNH).

Ochterus acutangulus: KIRKALDY & TORRE BUENO (1909): 179 (catalogue); BARBER (1913):214 (key to species); SCHELL (1943b): 38 –39 (original description repeated);? DRAKE (1952):73 –74 (checklist, comparative note, illustration); ALAYO (1971): 4 –5 (key to species); ALAYO (1974): 34 –35 (key to species); HECKMAN (2011): 459 –460 (key to species, illustration); POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS (2016), 17–20 (key to species, redescription, illustrations).

Distribution. Neotropical Region: Central America: Belize (POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016); Guatemala (CHAM- PION 1901, KIRKALDY & TORRE BUENO 1909, DRAKE 1952, POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016); Mexico (DRAKE 1952): Chiapas (POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016).

Notes. Comprative notes and record of O. acutangulus from Mexico: Tejupilco by SCHELL (1943b) actually refers to O. schellae (see DRAKE 1952), also her records from Mexico: Veracruz and Panama: Porto Bello (SCHELL 1943b) seem doubtful and require revision. DRAKE (1952: 74) provided an illustration of a female from Cuba. The distribution in Cuba was accepted by ALAYO (1971, 1974). However, there is no other record from Cuba (MUÑOZ RIVIAUX et al. 2010a,b; NARANJO et al. 2010), and its presence on the island is considered doubtful by POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS (2016).

Notes

Published as part of Kment, Petr, Carapezza, Attilio & Jindra, Zdeněk, 2020, Taxonomic catalogue of the family Ochteridae with description of Ochterus papaceki sp. nov. from Socotra Island and Tanzania (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), pp. 23-64 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 31, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.003, http://zenodo.org/record/3879659

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BMNH
Scientific name authorship
Champion
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Ochteridae
Genus
Ochterus
Species
acutangulus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Ochterus acutangulus (Champion, 1901) sec. Kment, Carapezza & Jindra, 2020

References

  • CHAMPION G. C. 1897 - 1901: Insects. Rhynchota. Hemiptera - Heteroptera. Vol. II. In: GODMAN F. D. & SALVIN O. (eds): Biologia Centrali-Americana. Vol. II. R. H. Porter, London, xvi + 416 pp., 22 pl. [1901: i-xvi, 345 - 416]
  • KIRKALDY G. W. & TORRE BUENO J. R. DE LA 1909: A catalogue of American aquatic and semi-aquatic Hemiptera. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 10 [1908]: 172 - 215.
  • BARBER H. G. 1913. Description of two new species of Ochterus Latr. (Hemiptera) with an arrangement of the North American species. Canadian Entomologist 45: 213 - 215.
  • SCHELL D. V. 1943 b: The Ochteridae (Hemiptera) of the Western Hemisphere. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 16 (2): 37 - 47. [April 1943]
  • DRAKE C. J. 1952: Concerning American Ochteridae (Hemiptera). Florida Entomologist 35: 72 - 75.
  • ALAYO P. D. 1971: Los Hemipteros de Cuba. Adiciones y enmiendas. Trabajos de Divulgacion, Museo " Felipe Poey " de la Academia de Ciencias de Cuba 63: 1 - 17.
  • ALAYO P. D. 1974: Los Hemipteros acuaticos de Cuba. Torreia, Nueva Serie 36: 1 - 64 + 1 table.
  • HECKMAN 2011: Encyclopedia of South American aquatic insects: Hemiptera - Heteroptera. Illustrated keys to known families, genera, and species in South America. Springer, Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, New York, ix + 679 pp.
  • POLHEMUS D. A. & POLHEMUS J. T. 2016: Revision of the genus Ochterus (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Ochteridae) in Mesoamerica and the United States. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 159: 9 - 75.
  • MUNOZ RIVIAUX S., MOREIRA F. F. F. & NARANJO LOPEZ C. 2010 a: Checklist, distribution, and habitat of the semiaquatic and aquatic bugs from Cuba (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Dipsocoromorpha, Leptopodomorpha, Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha). Zootaxa 2562: 1 - 23.
  • NARANJO C., RIVIAUX S. M., MOREIRA F. F. F. & COURT R. C. 2010: Taxonomy and distribution of aquatic and semiaquatic Heteroptera (Insecta) from Cuba. Revista de Biologia Tropical 58: 897 - 907.