Halobatopsis platensis (Berg, 1879)

Lima Franco, Cleilton, Mourão dos Santos Rodrigues, Juliana, Silva de Azevêdo, Carlos Augusto & Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, 2021, Gerromorpha (Insecta, Hemiptera, Heteroptera) from eastern Maranhão state, northeastern Brazil, Check List 17 (2), pp. 551-568 : 558

Halobatopsis platensis (Berg, 1879)

Figure 7D, E

New records. BRAZIL • 1 ♂; Maranhão, Caxias , Cor- rentinho stream; −04.82666, −043.37694; 26 Aug. 2019; C.L. Franco et al. leg.; LEAq 00070 • 4 ♂, 3 ♀; Maranhão, Caxias, Limpeza stream; −04.67611, −043.54222; 27 Aug. 2019; C.L. Franco et al. leg.; LEAq 00099 • 1 ♀; Maran- hão, Caxias, Planaçucar stream; −04.90666, −043.36250; 12 Aug. 2019; C.L. Franco et al. leg.; LEAq 00043 • 3 ♂, 10 ♀; Maranhão, Aldeias Altas, Poção stream; −04.67388, −043.54138; 27 Aug. 2019; C.L. Franco et al. leg.; LEAq 00110, 00117, 00203, 00205, 00268 • 1 ♀; Maranhão, Codó, Saco river ; −04.62482, −043.90249; 02 Oct. 2019; C.L. Franco et al. leg.; LEAq 00279 .

Identification. Our material was identified based on the following characters: mesonotum of the apterous form with longitudinal black marks ( Fig. 7D); male abdominal segment VIII without a ventral spine; and female abdominal laterotergites slightly elevated, not reflected over the mediotergites ( Nieser and Melo 1999).

Distribution in Brazil. MA*, PI, BA, MT, GO, DF, MS, MG, ES, SP, RJ, PR, RS.

Family Hebridae

Subfamily Hebrinae

Merragata White, 1877