Hydrometra comata Torre-Bueno

Dias-Silva, Karina, Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, Giehl, Nubia França Da Silva, Nóbrega, Caroline Correa & Cabette, Helena Soares Ramos, 2013, Gerromorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of eastern Mato Grosso State, Brazil: checklist, new records, and species distribution modeling, Zootaxa 3736 (3), pp. 201-235 : 214

Hydrometra comata Torre-Bueno

Distribuição da espécie: PA, MT!

Biological aspects: The examined specimens have been collected on slow flowing areas of a 2nd order stream with presence of marginal vegetation.

Comments: Part of the specimens recorded as H. argentina by Dias-Silva et al. (2010) were misidentified and correspond to those mentioned below. They were the first representatives of H. comata found in Brazil, on the Cerrado biome ( Fig. 7 ). The species was later recorded from the Amazon biome by Moreira and Campos (2012).

Material examined: PT 26, (2♀, 1♂), [nº 3777, 3780 e 3785], 13.IX.2007 and 16.I.2008, K. Dias-Silva leg.

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FIGURE 7. Predicted distribution of Hydrometra comata in Brazil based on literature and collections on eastern Mato Grosso.