Trepobates panamensis Drake & Hottes, 1952

Moreno-R., Claudia, Molina-J., Wendy, Barbosa, Julianna Freires & Moreira, Felipe, 2018, Aquatic and semiaquatic bugs (Insecta, Hemiptera, Heteroptera) from Toluviejo Municipality, Sucre Department, Caribbean region of Colombia, Check List 14 (6), pp. 985-1002 : 991-992

Trepobates panamensis Drake & Hottes, 1952

New records. Colombia: Sucre: Toluviejo: Bobo Stream, station 1 (09°33′47″ N, 075°24′51″ W), Claudia Moreno- R., 26.IV.2014 (CMR 056). Colombia: Sucre: Toluviejo: Bobo Stream, station 1 (09°33′47″ N, 075°24′51″ W), Wendy Molina-J., 26.IV.2014 (WMJ 019). Colombia: Sucre: Toluviejo: Bobo Stream, station 1 (09°33′47″ N, 075°24′51″ W), Claudia Moreno-R., 20.VI.2015 (CMR 098). Colombia: Sucre: Toluviejo: Bobo Stream, station 2 (09°33′45″ N, 075°24′46″ W), Wendy Molina-J., 20.VI.2015 (WMJ 050). Colombia: Sucre: Toluviejo: Bobo Stream, station 2 (09°33′45″ N, 075°24′46″ W), Wendy Molina-J., 18.III.2017 (WMJ 073). Colombia: Sucre: Toluviejo: Bobo Stream, station 3 (09°33′48″ N, 075°24′39″ W), Wendy Molina-J., 12.III.2014 (WMJ 003). Colombia: Sucre: Toluviejo: Bobo Stream, station 3 (09°33′48″ N, 075°24′39″ W), Claudia Moreno-R., 17.V.2014 (CMR 064). Colombia: Sucre: Toluviejo: Bobo Stream, station 3 (09°33′48″ N, 075°24′39″ W), Claudia Moreno-R., 18.VI.2014 (CMR 070). Colombia: Sucre: Toluviejo: Bobo Stream, station 4 (09°33′49″ N, 075°24′49″ W), Wendy Molina-J., 03.V.2014 (WMJ 010). Colombia: Sucre: Toluviejo: Bobo Stream, station 4 (09°33′49″ N, 075°24′49″ W), Claudia Moreno-R., 22.VIII.2015 (CMR 103). Colombia: Sucre: Toluviejo: Bobo Stream, station 5 (09°33′48″ N, 075°24′52″ W), Wendy Molina-J., 16.V.2015 (WMJ 044). Colombia: Sucre: Toluviejo: Bobo Stream, station 6 (09°33′46″ N, 075°24′51″ W), Wendy Molina-J., 28.III.2015 (WMJ 036). Colombia: Sucre: Toluviejo: Bobo Stream, station 6 (09°33′46″ N, 075°24′51″ W), Wendy Molina-J., 11.IV.2017 (WMJ 082). Colombia: Sucre: Toluviejo: Pechilín Stream, station 1 (09°26′11″ N, 075°26′21″ W), Wendy Molina-J., 06.VI.2015 (WMJ 046). Colombia: Sucre: Toluviejo: Pechilín Stream, station 1 (09°26′11″ N, 075°26′21″ W), Claudia Moreno-R., 25.II.2017 (CMR 117). Colombia: Sucre: Toluviejo: Pechilín Stream, station 2 (09°26′08″ N, 075°26′15″ W), Claudia Moreno-R., 11.IV.2015 (CMR 087). Colombia: Sucre: Toluviejo: Pechilín Stream, station 2 (09°26′08″ N, 075°26′15″ W), Claudia Moreno-R., 01.IV.2017 (CMR 126). Colombia: Sucre: Toluviejo: Macaján Stream, station 1 (09°32′04″ N, 075°24′52″ W), Wendy Molina-J., 03.VI.2017 (WMJ 075). Colombia: Sucre: Toluviejo: Macaján Stream, station 2 (09°32′05″ N, 075°24′53″ W), Claudia Moreno-R., 22.IV.2017 (CMR 132).

Identification. The 3 species of Trepobates occurring in Colombia have been collected in the study area. Males were identified as T. panamensis when the fore femur had no preapical constriction and the venter of abdominal segment VIII was covered only by short setae. Females were identified by the abdominal sternite VII not strongly projected posteriorly, with a fringe of short setae on the posterior margin ( Aristizábal-García 2002).

Distribution in the Colombian Caribbean region. Córdoba ( Morales-Castaño and Castro-Vargas 2010), Magdalena ( Molano-Rendón et al. 2005), Sucre ( Aristizábal-García 2017, this work).