Rheumatobates bergrothi Meinert

Padilla-Gil, Dora N. & Pacheco-Chaves, Bernald, 2012, New records of Rheumatobates Bergroth (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerridae) from the Pacific coast of Colombia and Costa Rica, with a key to males of Rheumatobates in the Eastern Tropical Pacific, Zootaxa 3427, pp. 33-46 : 41

Rheumatobates bergrothi Meinert

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Material examined. COSTA RICA. San José: Lago Parque Universidad para la Paz, Cuidad Colón, 2 IX 2000, leg. Indet., 1 M, 2 F ( MZUCR). PUNTARENAS: Río Rincón, Península de Osa, 10m, 27 IX 1996, M. Springer, 6 M, 2 F ( MZUCR). CARTAGO: Embalse Angostura, Turrialba, 300 m del Catie, 4 XI 2009, M. Herrera, 1 M, 1 F, 1 ninfa ( MZUNA). ALAJUELA: Crucitas, Cutris, San Carlos, 50m, 25 IV 2008, B. Pacheco, 5 M, 1 F, 1 ninfa ( MZUCR). LIMÓN: Laguna Peje, Peje, 28m, 28 VIII. 2010, B. Pacheco, 2 M, 4 F ( MZUCR).

Ecological notes. This species has been collected along both Pacific and Atlantic coasts of Costa Rica, in freshwater lagoons and one river. It has been found in localities close to the coast from 10 m. o. s. l. in the Pacific slope, to localities over 852 m in the Caribbean slope. It was occasionally taken in combination with the water striders Trepobates trepidus Drake & Harris, 1928 and T. taylori .

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FIGURE 12. Rheumtobates bergrothi, male, habitus (Scale 1 mm).