New records of Gerromorpha (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Brazil

By

Rodrigues, Higor Daniel Duarte
Melo, Alan Lane de
Ferreira-Keppler, Ruth Leila

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2012-9-1

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

8

Series / Issue

Issue: 5

Pages

908--913

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/8.5.908

 

Abstract

New records are presented for twenty-four species of Gerromorpha belonging to Gerridae (Brachymetra furva, B. lata, Cylindrostethus palmaris, Halobatopsis platensis, Limnogonus aduncus aduncus, L. ignotus, L. profugus, L. recurvus, Ovatametra minima, O. obesa, Tachygerris adamsoni and Neogerris lubricus), Mesoveliidae (Mesovelia zeteki and Mesoveloidea williamsi) and Veliidae (Microvelia longipes, Oiovelia brasiliensis, O. cunucunumana, Paravelia bullialata, P. capixaba, Platyvelia brachialis, Rhagovelia tenuipes, Stridulivelia astralis, S. quadrispinosa and S. tersa). These new records are distributed among the four administrate regions of Brazil, and the known geographical distribution of these species in the country is presented.