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Rheumatobates minutus subsp. flavidus Drake & Harris 1942

  • 1. Laboratório de Biodiversidade Entomológica, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • 2. Laboratório de Biodiversidade Entomológica, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. & leticianerya @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4499 - 8442
  • 3. Laboratório de Biodiversidade Entomológica, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. & Museu de História Natural, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil.
  • 4. Laboratório de Biodiversidade Entomológica, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. & ppmeiameiameia @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6692 - 0323

Description

Rheumatobates minutus flavidus Drake & Harris, 1942

(Figs 70, 76)

Geographical distribution: Argentina (Mazzucconi 1999), Bolivia (Spangler et al. 1985), Brazil (Hungerford 1954), Colombia (Molano et al. 2018b), Costa Rica (Spangler et al. 1985), Panama (Polhemus & Spangler 1989), Peru (Drake & Harris 1942).

Distribution in Brazil: AL*, AM (Drake & Carvalho 1954; Hungerford 1954), MG (Melo & Nieser 2004), PA (Cunha et al. 2015; Guterres et al. 2019), RO (Hungerford 1954), SE*, SP (Cordeiro & Moreira 2015).

Material examined: BRAZIL • Alagoas • 3 males, 3 females, 3 nymphs; Campo Grande, rio; -9.955930, - 36.837280; 07 Jul. 2018; C.F.B. Floriano, J.M.S. Rodrigues & J.F. Barbosa col.; CEIOC 81601. • 1 male; Coruripe, Lagoa do Pau; -10.120556, -36.111944; alt. 7 m; L-0007; 18 Sep. 2017; H. Rodrigues col.; MZUSP. • Sergipe • 5 males, 4 females; Nossa Senhora da Glória, Rio Sergipe; -10.138028, -37.531583; 07 Jul. 2018; C.F.B. Floriano, J.M.S. Rodrigues & J.F. Barbosa col.; CEIOC 79883.

Notes

Published as part of Rodrigues, Juliana Mourão Dos Santos, Nery, Leticia, Rodrigues, Higor D. D. & Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, 2021, Survey of the semiaquatic bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha) from Alagoas and Sergipe, Northeast Brazil, pp. 103-159 in Zootaxa 4958 (1) on page 123, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4958.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/4693243

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
CEIOC , MZUSP
Event date
2017-09-18 , 2018-07-07
Family
Gerridae
Genus
Rheumatobates
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
CEIOC 79883 , CEIOC 81601
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Drake & Harris
Species
flavidus
Taxon rank
subSpecies
Verbatim event date
2017-09-18 , 2018-07-07
Taxonomic concept label
Rheumatobates minutus subsp. flavidus Drake, 1942 sec. Rodrigues, Nery, Rodrigues & Moreira, 2021

References

  • Drake, C. J. & Harris, H. M. (1942) Notas sobre Rheumatobates, com descricao de uma nova especie (Hemiptera, Gerridae). Revista Brasileira de Biologia, 2, 399 - 402.
  • Mazzucconi, S. A. (1999) Rheumatobates (Rheumatobates) minutus flavidus Drake y Harris en la Argentina (Insecta: Heteroptera: Gerridae). Neotropica, 45 (113 - 114), 108.
  • Spangler, P. J., Froeschner, R. C. & Polhemus, J. T. (1985) Comments on a water strider Rheumatobates meinerti from the Antilles and a checklist of the species of the genus (Hemiptera: Gerridae). Entomological News, 96 (5), 196 - 200.
  • Hungerford, H. (1954) The genus Rheumatobates Bergroth (Hemiptera-Gerridae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin, 36, 529 - 587. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 24625
  • Molano, F. R., Mondragon-F., S. P. & Morales, I. (2018 b) Nuevas especies de chinches patinadoras (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerridae) de Colombia. Acta Biologica Colombiana, 23 (2), 179 - 188. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.15446 / caldasia. v 39 n 2.60603
  • Polhemus, J. T. & Spangler, P. J. (1989) A new species of Rheumatobates Bergroth from Ecuador and distribution of the genus (Heteroptera: Gerridae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 91, 421 - 428.
  • Drake, C. J. & Carvalho, J. C. M. (1954) New waterstriders from Brazil (Hemiptera). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 67, 223 - 226.
  • Melo, A. L. & Nieser, N. (2004) Faunistical notes on aquatic and semiaquatic Heteroptera of Minas Gerais (Brazil): an annotated list of Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha collected near Januaria. Lundiana, 5, 43 - 49.
  • Cunha, E. J., Montag, L. F. A. & Juen, L. (2015) Oil palm crops effects on environmental integrity of Amazonian streams and Heteropteran (Hemiptera) species diversity. Ecological Indicators, 52, 422 - 429. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ecolind. 2014.12.024
  • Guterres, A. P. M., Cunha, E. J., Godoy, B. S., Silva, R. R. & Juen, L. (2019) Co-occurrence patterns and morphological similarity of semiaquatic insects (Hemiptera: Gerromorpha) in streams of eastern Amazonia. Ecological Entomology, 45 (1), 1 - 12. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / een. 12785
  • Cordeiro, I. R. S. & Moreira, F. F. F. (2015) New distributional data on aquatic and semiaquatic bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha & Nepomorpha) from South America. Biodiversity Data Journal, 3, e 4913. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / BDJ. 3. e 4913