Brachymetra bernaldi Cordeiro, 2018

Pacheco-Chaves, Bernald, Cordeiro, Isabelle Da Rocha Silva, Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo & Springer, Monika, 2018, The water striders (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerridae) of Costa Rica: new species, checklist, and new records, Zootaxa 4471 (3), pp. 493-522 : 497

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4471.3.4

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C83B3937-4CFA-4B2D-972C-C95DE896D85C

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5958966

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scientific name

Brachymetra bernaldi Cordeiro
status

sp. nov.

Brachymetra bernaldi Cordeiro View in CoL , sp. nov.

( Figs. 1–10 View FIGURES 1–9 View FIGURE 10 )

This new species is known only from a tropical rain forest stream in the lowlands of the Caribbean slope, at approximately 200 m a.s.l., in the province of Heredia.

Material examined. Heredia Sarapiquí, La Tirimbina Reserve, stream in La Ceiba Trail, 07.VII.2008, (B. Pacheco): 2 males, 3 females ( CEIOC) .

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FIGURES 1–9. Brachymetra bernaldi Cordeiro, sp. nov. 1a. Male, dorsal view. 1b. Male, ventral view. 1c. Male, lateral view. 2a. Female, dorsal view. 2b. Female, ventral view. 2c. Female, lateral view. 3a. Male, apex of abdomen, dorsal view. 3b. Male, apex of abdomen, ventral view. 4a. Female, apex of abdomen, dorsal view. 4b. Female, apex of abdomen, ventral view. 5a. Male, abdominal segment VIII, dorsal view. 5b. Male, abdominal segment VIII, ventral view. 5c. Male, abdominal segment VIII, lateral view. 6a. Male, pygophore, lateral view. 6b. Male, pygophore, detail of apex, caudal view. 7. Male, proctiger, dorsal view. 8a. Paramere, caudal view. 8b. Paramere, lateral view. 9. Sclerites of phallus, lateral view (DE: dorsal sclerite, VE: ventral sclerite).

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FIGURE 10. Collecting records of Charmatometrinae and Rhagadotarsinae within the Costa Rican territory.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Gerridae

Genus

Brachymetra