Martarega hungerfordi Truxal, 1949

Barbosa, Julianna Freires, Ribeiro, José Ricardo Inacio & Nessimian, Jorge Luiz, 2012, A synopsis of Martarega White, 1879 (Insecta: Heteroptera: Notonectidae) occurring in the Brazilian Amazonia, with descriptions of three new species, Journal of Natural History 46 (17 - 18), pp. 1025-1057 : 1044

Martarega hungerfordi Truxal, 1949

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Martarega hungerfordi Truxal, 1949: 12 [ Guyana].

Martarega hungerfordi: Fittkau 1977: 16 [ Brazil].

Martarega hungerfordi: Heckman 2011: 489 [South America].

No specimens were collected in the regions sampled. Nieser (1970, 1975) reports that M. hungerfordi was taken from the States of Amazonas and Pará (Figure 14B). These records refer to the species M. nieseri sp. nov. otherwise (Nico Nieser in litt.), with which M. hungerfordi may be confused. Martarega hungerfordi was recorded by Fittkau (1977) from the Amazon Region, but the record could not be verified, because the author provided only a list of species.

Martarega hungerfordi may be mistakenly keyed out to M. oriximinaensis in Barbosa et al. (2010) key to Martarega species occurring in political northern Brazil. This is because its hind trochanters have a sharp concavity at its distal end ( Figure 7B ) and its median stripe does not bifurcate at apex of hemelytra ( Figure 7A ).

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Figures 5–8. Martarega species occurring in Brazilian Amazonia. Figure 5. Martarega chinai Hynes, 1948. (A) Male hemelytra (lateral view); (B) female hemelytra (lateral view); (C) male mesotrochanter with one group of short bristles at ventral surface; (D) male genitalia capsule