Lethocerus maximus De Carlo 1938
- 1. Laboratorio de Entomología, IBBEA, CONICET-UBA., DBBE-FCEN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales y Agrimensura, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Corrientes, Argentina. acarmua @ hotmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1686 - 6381
- 2. División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Description
Lethocerus maximus De Carlo, 1938
Lethocerus maximus De Carlo, 1938: Anls. Mus. Arg. Cien. Nat., 209–210.
Material examined. Laguna Iberá RS: 3 ♂, Fernández Lagoon, 11.xii.2014.
General distribution. The Lesser Antilles, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina (Moreira et al. 2011b).
Habitat. Lethocerus maximus has been found in rivers, a reservoir, and it has been taken at lights (Nieser & Alkins-Koo 1991; Perez Goodwyn 2006; Armúa de Reyes & Estévez 2016; Almeida et al. 2019). This species was collected together with L. annulipes in the Paraná River (Argentina), in association with Salvinia sp. and Pontederia crassipes (Armúa de Reyes & Estévez 2016).
At the INR, specimens were collected from the margins of the Fernández Lagoon, exposed to sunlight and with submerged, emergent, and floating vegetation.
Remarks. This is the first record of L. maximus from INR. This species was previously recorded from Corrientes Province (Armúa de Reyes & Estévez 2016).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Belostomatidae
- Genus
- Lethocerus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- De Carlo
- Species
- maximus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lethocerus maximus Carlo, 1938 sec. Mazzucconi, Reyes & Estévez, 2022
References
- De Carlo, J. A. (1938) Los belostomidos americanos (Hemiptera). Anales del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, 39, 189 - 260.
- Moreira, F. F. F., Barbosa, J. F., Ribeiro, J. R. I. & Alecrim, V. P. (2011 b) Checklist and distribution of semiaquatic and aquatic Heteroptera (Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha) occurring in Brazil. Zootaxa, 2958 (1), 1 - 74. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2958.1.1
- Nieser, N. & Alkins-Koo, M. (1991) The water bugs of Trinidad & Tobago. Occasional Papers, Department of Zoology, University of the West Indies, 9, i - iii + 1 - 127.
- Perez Goodwyn, P. J. (2006) Taxonomic revision of the subfamily Lethocerinae Lauck & Menke (Heteroptera: Belostomatidae). Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde, Serie A, 695, 1 - 71.
- Armua de Reyes, A. C. & Estevez, A. L. (2016) Nuevos hallazgos de hemiptera (Belostomatidae) para la provincia de Corrientes, Argentina. Extensionismo, Innovacion y Transferencia Tecnologica, 3, 222 - 225. https: // doi. org / 10.30972 / eitt. 303023
- Almeida, T. M. de, Stefanello, F. & Hamada, N. (2019) Belostomatidae (Heteroptera: Nepomorpha) held in the invertebrate collection of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, Manaus, Brazil: inventory and new distributional records. Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia, 59, e 20195906. https: // doi. org / 10.11606 / 1807 - 0205 / 2019.59.06