Hydrometra comata Torre-Bueno, 1926

Martínez, David Camilo, Galindo-Malagón, Ximena Alejandra, Molano, Fredy & Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, 2019, Descriptions, records, and key to the Hydrometra Latreille, 1796 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Hydrometridae) from Colombia, Zootaxa 4577 (1), pp. 51-72 : 65-66

Hydrometra comata Torre-Bueno, 1926

( Fig. 9c , 10 k–l)

Material examined. Colombia, Cundinamarca: 1 macropterous ♂, Puerto Salgar , 5°28'1.62''N 74°39'43.32''W, M. S. Laython col. (BIOUNAL) . Quindío: 1 brachypterous ♂, Corozal , 1144 m. 14.vii.2005, I. Morales col. ( UPTC) . Santander: 1 brachypterous ♀, Curití, Río Curití , 6°36'17,4''N 73°4'47,4''W, 1464 m. 22.ix.2017, I. Morales & F. Molano col. ( UPTC) ; 2 brachypterous ♀, 3 brachypterous ♂, Barichara , 6°38'7.0''N 73°18'2.2''W, 1386 m. 20.ix.2017, I. Morales & F. Molano col. ( UPTC) .

Distribution. Brazil: Goiás ( Floriano et al. 2017), Mato Grosso ( Dias-Silva et al. 2013), Pará ( Moreira & Campos 2012, Cunha et al. 2015). Colombia: Cundinamarca (this work), Quindío, Valle del Cauca ( Morales & Molano 2008), Santander (this work). Suriname: Brokopondo ( Nieser 1970). Trinidad & Tobago ( Torre-Bueno 1926), Siparia ( Alkins-Koo 1990). Venezuela: Amazonas ( Floriano et al. 2017).

Notes. Specimens from Quindío and Valle del Cauca departments were mistakenly identified as H. sztolcmani Jaczewski, 1928 by Morales & Molano (2008). We present the first records of this species from the Colombian departments of Cundinamarca and Santander ( Fig. 8 ).

Figures

FIGURE 9. Anterior portion of the head of species of Hydrometra, dorsal view. a) H. argentina. b) H. caraiba. c) H. comata. d) H. guianana. e) H. olallai.

FIGURE 10. Apex of male abdomen in species of Hydrometra. H. argentina: a–b. H. caraiba: c–d. H. olallai:e–f. H. williamsi: g–h. H. guianana: i–j. H. comata: k–l.

FIGURES 7–8. Distributions of Hydrometra. 7) Three new species and 8) New records of species presented in this paper.