Nerthra ranina ( Herrich-Schaeffer, 1853 )

Mazzucconi, Silvia Ana, Reyes, Cristina Armúa De & Estévez, Ana Lía, 2022, Aquatic and semiaquatic Heteroptera (Insecta: Hemiptera) from Iberá Natural Reserve (Corrientes Province, Argentina), Zootaxa 5104 (4), pp. 451-505 : 484

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scientific name	Nerthra ranina ( Herrich-Schaeffer, 1853 )
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Nerthra ranina ( Herrich-Schaeffer, 1853) View in CoL

Mononyx raninus Herrich-Schaeffer, 1853 : Wanzenart. Ins., 28.

Nerthra ranina: Todd, 1955 View in CoL : Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 368–371.

General distribution. Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay ( Moreira et al. 2011b).

Habitat. Nerthra ranina has been found in streams, rivers, lagoons and the wet margins of stagnant pools connected to streams ( Bachmann 1962c; Estévez & Schnack 1979; Schnack & Estévez 1979; Melo & Nieser 2004; Estévez & López Ruf 2006). Specimens were also collected with pitfall traps in grasslands surrounded by a permanent channel in the Delta of the Paraná River in Argentina ( Nanni et al. 2011).

At the INR, this species was found moving or resting among the flooded grass, aquatic rooted plants, or on the bottom in the Laguna Iberá ( Estévez & López Ruf 2006; Estévez et al. 2010). It was also observed submerged, walking or resting among the aquatic plants or on the bottom, and swimming on the water surface with their fore legs folded and propelled by their second and hind legs (Estévez et al. 2003, 2010; Estévez & López Ruf 2006).

References

Bachmann, A. O. (1962 c) Apuntes para una hidrobiologia Argentina. IV. Los Hemiptera Cryptocerata del delta del Parana (Insecta). Revista de la Sociedad Entomologica Argentina, 23, 24 - 25. [1960]

Estevez, A. L. & Schnack, J. A. (1979) Descripcion de las ninfas de Nerthra ranina (Herrich-Schaeffer) (Hemiptera, Gelastocoridae). Revista de la Sociedad Entomologica Argentina, 37, 119 - 123. [1978]

Estevez, A. L. & Lopez Ruf, M. L. (2006) Separacion de subfamilias en la familia de chinches Gelastocoridae (Hemiptera). Revista de Biologia Tropical, 54, 1319 - 1322. https: // doi. org / 10.15517 / rbt. v 54 i 4.14404

Estevez, A. L., Lopez Ruf, M. L. & Hernandez, E. P. (2010) Description of the preimaginal instars of Nerthra gaucha Estevez- Schnack (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gelastocoridae). Zootaxa, 2444 (1), 61 - 64. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2444.1.5

Herrich-Schaeffer, G. A. W. (1853) Die wanzenartigen Insecten: getreu nach der Natur abgebildet und beschrieben, Nuremberg (Lotzbeck), 9 (1), 1 - 348;

Melo, A. L. de & Nieser, N. (2004) Faunistical notes on aquatic Heteroptera of Minas Gerais (Brazil): an annotated list of Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha collected near Januaria, MG. Lundiana, 5, 43 - 49.

Moreira, F. F. F., Barbosa, J. F., Ribeiro, J. R. I. & Alecrim, V. P. (2011 b) Checklist and distribution of semiaquatic and aquatic Heteroptera (Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha) occurring in Brazil. Zootaxa, 2958 (1), 1 - 74. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2958.1.1

Nanni, A. S., Magnano, A. L. & Carpintero, D. L. (2011) Los Heteroptera (Insecta: Hemiptera) edaficos del INTA Delta del Parana (partido de Campana, Buenos Aires). Variacion espacial y temporal del elenco de las especies en distintos usos de la tierra. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Nueva Serie, 13, 27 - 39.

Schnack, J. A. & Estevez, A. L. (1979) Monografia sistematica de los Gelastocoridae de la Republica Argentina (Hemiptera). Limnobios, 1, 346 - 380.

Todd, E. L. (1955) A taxonomic revision of the family Gelastocoridae (Hemiptera). University of Kansas Science Bulletin, 37, 277 - 475. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 1590