Gelastocoris flavus flavus (Guérin-Méneville, 1835), flavus (Guerin-Meneville, 1835

Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, Barbosa, Julianna Freires, Ribeiro, José Ricardo Inacio & Alecrim, Viviani Pereira, 2011, Checklist and distribution of semiaquatic and aquatic Heteroptera (Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha) occurring in Brazil 2958, Zootaxa 2958 (1), pp. 1-74 : 39

Gelastocoris flavus flavus (Guérin-Méneville, 1835)

Geographical distribution: Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad & Tobago, Suriname, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina, and Uruguay.

Distribution in Brazil: all regions (PA, AM, TO, MT, BA, GO, MG, ES, SP, RJ, PR, SC, RS) ( Melin 1929; De Carlo 1954b; Todd 1955, 1957a; De Carlo 1959; Todd 1972; Nieser 1972, 1975, 1977b; Schnack & Estévez 1979; Boulard & Jauffret 1984; Nieser & Melo 1997; Heckman 1998; Melo & Nieser 2004; Pelli et al. 2006; Souza et al. 2006; Pereira & Melo 2007).

Comments: Todd (1955) listed one female specimen from “ Brazil: Abama,” collected by Mann. Despite much effort, it was not possible to determine the geographic position of such locality in Brazil. The record from TO is based on Todd’s (1957a) citation of “ 48 km S. Peixe.” This material was collected in a locality nowadays situated on TO, not GO. Gelastocoris paraguayensis was considered a junior-synonym of G. nebulosus (Guérin-Méneville, 1844) [= G. flavus flavus] by Todd (1955) and Nieser (1975), a decision which is followed in this list. Schnack & Estévez (1979) did not agree with the synonymy, and recorded the species, as G. paraguayensis , from MT.