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Brachymetra furva Drake 1957

  • 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

Brachymetra furva Drake, 1957

Brachymetra furva Drake, 1957: Bull. Brooklyn. Entom. Soc., 128–129.

Material examined. On the road to Itatí RS: 31 ♂, 26 ♀, Mercedes Department, Pay Ubre Grande Stream, Provincial Route 29, 25 km NW Mercedes, 25.ix.2003; 19 ♂, 12 ♀, Mercedes Department, Pay Ubre Chico Stream, Provincial Route 29, 25 km NW Mercedes, 27.ix.2003; 2 ♀, Mercedes Department, Pay Ubre Chico Stream, Provincial Route 29, 28.iii.2014.

General distribution. Brazil, Argentina (Cordeiro & Moreira 2015).

Habitat. This species has usually been found in streams without aquatic vegetation, in slow-moving water and in shaded areas (Nieser & Melo 1997; Melo & Nieser 2004; Pelli et al. 2006; Torres et al. 2007), but it has also been collected in rivers and stagnant waterbodies connected to lotic ones (reservoirs and pools connected to streams; ponds at waterfall bases) in shaded areas (Vianna & Melo 2003; Pelli et al. 2006), in a stream with aquatic vegetation (Souza et al. 2006), and in a stream and overflow path in agricultural fields mostly exposed to sunlight (Melo & Nieser 2004). This species has also been found in streams with gallery forests that run along their margins (Pelli et al. 2006).

At the INR, specimens were collected in standing and slow-moving water along the margins with gallery forests of Pay Ubre Chico Stream and Pay Ubre Grande Stream, in shaded places without aquatic vegetation.

Remarks. The collection of B. furva from INR represents the first record from Corrientes Province.

Notes

Published as part of Mazzucconi, Silvia Ana, Reyes, Cristina Armúa De & Estévez, Ana Lía, 2022, Aquatic and semiaquatic Heteroptera (Insecta: Hemiptera) from Iberá Natural Reserve (Corrientes Province, Argentina), pp. 451-505 in Zootaxa 5104 (4) on pages 465-466, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5104.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6332126

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Drake
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Gerridae
Genus
Brachymetra
Species
furva
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Brachymetra furva Drake, 1957 sec. Mazzucconi, Reyes & Estévez, 2022

References

  • Drake, C. J. (1957) New Neotropical Halobatinae (Hemiptera: Gerridae). Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, 52 (5), 128 - 130.
  • Cordeiro, I. R. S. & Moreira, F. F. F. (2015) New distributional data on aquatic and semiaquatic bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha & Nepomorpha) from South America. America Biodiversity Data Journal, 3, e 4913. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / BDJ. 3. e 4913
  • Nieser, N. & Melo, A. L. de (1997) Os Heteropteros aquaticos de Minas Gerais. Guia introdutorio com chave de identificacao para as especies de Nepomorpha e Gerromorpha. Editora Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, 177 pp.
  • Melo, A. L. de & Nieser, N. (2004) Faunistical notes on aquatic Heteroptera of Minas Gerais (Brazil): an annotated list of Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha collected near Januaria, MG. Lundiana, 5, 43 - 49.
  • Pelli, A., Nieser, N. & Melo, A. L. de (2006) Nepomorpha and Gerromorpha (Insecta: Heteroptera) from the Serra da Canastra, southwestern Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Lundiana, 7 (1), 67 - 72.
  • Torres, P. L. M., Mazzucconi, S. A. & Michat, M. C. (2007) Los coleopteros y heteropteros acuaticos del Parque Nacional El Palmar (Provincia de Entre Rios, Argentina): lista faunistica, diversidad y distribucion. Revista de la Sociedad Entomologica Argentina, 66, 127 - 153.
  • Vianna, G. J. C. & Melo, A. L. (2003) Distribution patterns of aquatic and semi aquatic Heteroptera in Retiro das Pedras, Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Lundiana, 4, 125 - 128.
  • Souza, M. A. A., Melo, A. L. & Vianna, G. J. C. (2006) Heteropteros aquaticos oriundos do Municipio de Mariana, MG. Neotropical Entomology, 35, 803 - 810. https: // doi. org / 10.1590 / S 1519 - 566 X 2006000600013