Belostoma stollii ( Amyot & Serville, 1843 )

Franco, Cleilton Lima, Stefanello, Fabiano, Azevêdo, Carlos Augusto Silva de & Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, 2024, Belostomatidae Leach, 1815 (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Nepomorpha) of northeastern Brazil, European Journal of Taxonomy 932, pp. 271-304 : 289-290

Belostoma stollii ( Amyot & Serville, 1843)

Figs 13 , 44

Diagnosis

Body broad (length 2 × width); length of anteoculus 1.15–1.59 × length of interoculus ( Ribeiro 2007).

Material examined

BRAZIL – Maranhão • 1 ♀; Cândido Mendes municipality, Fazenda 7 Irmãos ; 1°52′06″ S, 45°45′59.7″ W; 2–6 Jul. 2019; F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, D. Limeira and J.S. Brito leg. [00130]; C.L. Franco det. 2021; CZMA • 1 ♂; Carolina municipality, Perímetro Urbano ; 7°19′40″ S, 47°27′14″ W; 25–26 Dec. 2013; F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, T.T. Silva and T.L. Rocha leg. [00054]; C.L. Franco det. 2021; CZMA • 1 ♂; C.N [Centro Novo do Maranhão] municipality, Reserva Biologica do Gurupi, REBIO ; 3°14′01″ S, 46°40′52″ W; 7–15 Jan. 2011; F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, M.M. Abreu and A.S. Barbosa leg. [00070]; C.L. Franco det. 2021; CZMA .

Distribution

BOLIVIA ( De Carlo 1966); BRAZIL ( Kirkaldy & Torre-Bueno 1909): Alagoas ( Dubeux et al. 2020), Amazonas ( Lauck 1963; Ribeiro 2007; Almeida et al. 2019), Maranhão (this work); Mato Grosso ( De Carlo 1950; Lauck 1963), Minas Gerais ( Nieser & Melo 1997; Munhoz et al. 2020), Pará ( Ribeiro 2000, 2007), Rio de Janeiro ( Ribeiro 2000, 2005, 2007), Roraima ( Almeida et al. 2019); FRENCH GUIANA ( Amyot & Serville 1843); GUYANA ( Erichson 1848); PARAGUAY ( Arnold 2014); PERU ( Lauck 1963); SURINAME ( Lauck 1963); VENEZUELA ( Lauck 1963).

Distribution in northeastern Brazil

Alagoas and Maranhão.

Note

These are the first records of this species from the state of Maranhão.

Figures

Figs 9–16. Dorsal and ventral habitus of examined species of Belostomatidae. 9. Belostoma discretum Montandon, 1903, ♂, Carolina municipality. 10. B. micantulum (Stål, 1860), ♂, Caxias municipality. 11. B. nessimiani Ribeiro & Alecrim, 2008, ♂, Caxias municipality. 12. B. aurivillianum (Montandon, 1899), ♂, Cândido Mendes municipality. 13. B. stollii (Amyot & Serville, 1843), ♀, Cândido Mendes municipality. 14. Lethocerus annulipes (Herrich-Schäffer, 1845), ♂, Ubajara municipality. 15. L. delpontei De Carlo, 1930, ♂, Caxias municipality. 16. L. maximus De Carlo, 1938, ♀, Riachão municipality. Scale bars: 9–11, 14–16 = 10 mm; 12–13 = 1 mm.

Figs 42–45. 42–44. Geographic distribution of Belostoma in Brazil: yellow circles and gray stars indicate known records, red circles and stars indicate new records. 42. Belostoma discretum Montandon, 1903. 43. B. micantulum (Stål, 1860) and B. nessimiani Ribeiro & Alecrim, 2008. 44. B. aurivillianum (Montandon, 1899) and B. stollii (Amyot & Serville, 1843). 45. Distribution of Lethocerus annulipes (Herrich-Schäffer, 1845), L. delpontei De Carlo, 1930 and L. maximus De Carlo, 1938: yellow circles, gray stars, and orange cross indicate known records, red circles, stars, and cross indicate new records.