Martarega bentoi Truxal, 1949

Rodrigues, Juliana Mourão Dos Santos, Cordeiro, Isabelle Da Rocha Silva, Floriano, Carla Fernanda Burguez, Paiva, Nathália De Oliveira, Magalhães, Oséias Martins, Júnior, Evaldo Alves Joaquim, Martins, Thaynara De Souza, Silva, Rafaella Cardoso Da, Siqueira, Gabriel Vieira, Salles, Frederico Falcão, Viala, Séverine, Khila, Abderrahman & Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, 2023, Descriptions of new species and new records of water bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha & Nepomorpha) from southeastern Brazil, Zootaxa 5393 (1), pp. 1-86 : 80

Martarega bentoi Truxal, 1949

Fig. 57C, E

Diagnosis. Coleopteroid form: body length 4.9–6.2 mm; scutellum almost entirely opaque, apex hyaline; forewing stripes sexually dimorphic; hind trochanter with apical margin continuous; male ocular commissure equal to or longer than half of eye width; male forewing with median hyaline stripe at least half as wide as opaque area below stripe; male middle trochanter with cluster of ensiform setae on ventral surface, cluster at same line of base of articulation with femur; male middle femur without cluster of ensiform setae; female ocular commissure straight; female forewing: lateral margin of embolium not serrated, median stripe a third to half as wide as forewing, superior margin of median stripe continuous centrally, inferior margin of median stripe with convexity; female hind femur with anterior margin strongly emarginated and posterior margin not bulging. Macropterous form: body length 5.9– 6.4 mm; forewing brown; male middle trochanter with cluster of ensiform setae on ventral surface, cluster at same line of base of articulation with femur; male middle femur with setae restricted to median axis; female hind femur with anterior margin emarginated and posterior margin not bulging ( Barbosa 2014).

New records. BRAZIL — Rio de Janeiro • Itaocara, Paraíba do Sul River , right branch, shallow water; −21.6431, −42.0274; 31. VII.2016; FFF Moreira, IRS Cordeiro, FS Motta, OM Magalhães leg.; 1 male, CEIOC 79970 .

Distribution in Brazil. BA ( Moreira et al. 2016), CE ( Takiya et al. 2016), GO ( Barbosa & Dias-Silva 2017), MG ( Barbosa & Rodrigues 2013; Gutiérrez et al. 2017; Novais et al. 2017), MT ( Barbosa & Giehl 2014), PE ( Truxal 1949), PI ( Barbosa & Rodrigues 2013), RJ ( Cordeiro & Moreira 2015).

Figures

FIGURE 57. Collected specimens (A–C), and distribution in southeastern Brazil and adjacent areas (D, E). Nepomorpha from Rio de Janeiro state. A–B. Naucoridae, Limnocoris. A. Limnocoris acutalis, male from Cantagalo (−21.9720, −42.3931). B. Limnocoris pusillus, male from São Fidélis (−21.6106, −41.8078). C. Notonectidae, Martarega bentoi, male from Itaocara (−21.6431, −42.0274). D. Limnocoris acutalis (red) and Limnocoris pusillus (yellow). E. Martarega bentoi. Stars indicate new records; circles indicate previous records. Scale bars: 2 mm.