Telmatometra parva Kenaga, 1941

Rodrigues, Juliana Mourao dos Santos, Crumiere, Antonin Jean Johan, Toubiana, William, Khila, Abderrahman & Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, 2022, New species and new records of semiaquatic bugs (Arthropoda, Insecta, Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Gerromorpha) from French Guiana, ZooKeys 1126, pp. 155-199 : 155

Telmatometra parva Kenaga, 1941

Figs 3B , 4B

Material examined.

French Guiana • 1 apterous ♀; Reserve Naturelle Nationale des Nouragues , Camp Inselberg; 4.0892, -52.6772; 16 Oct. 2016; A.J.J. Crumière, A. Khila, F.F.F. Moreira, W. Toubiana leg.; CEIOC 77299 • 1 apterous ♀; localities near Cayenne; [4.86, -52.34]; 12-13 Oct. 2016; A.J.J. Crumière, A. Khila, F.F.F. Moreira, W. Toubiana leg.; CEIOC 79991 .

Distribution.

French Guiana (this work), Brazil ( Kenaga 1941).

Note.

This species and the previous two above have been identified based on Kenaga’s (1941, 1942) revisions, in which color patterns have been used to delimit species. We believe that there is a good amount of intraspecific variation in this aspect, and that both Ovatametra Kenaga, 1942 and Telmatometra Bergroth, 1908 are in serious need of more thorough revisions.

Family Mesoveliidae

Figures

Figure 3. Geographic distribution of Gerridae in French Guiana A Brachymetra lata, Cylindrostethus hungerfordi, C. palmaris, Limnogonus hyalinus, Neogerris magnus and Tachygerris adamsoni B Rheumatobates mangrovensis, R. trinitatis, Ovatametra obesa, Telmatometra fusca and T. parva. Circles indicate previous records; stars indicate new records.

Figure 4. Habitus, dorsal view. A Telmatometra fusca B Telmatometra parva. Scale bars: 2.0 mm.