Metrobates tumidus Anderson, 1932

Riviaux, Senén Muñoz, Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo & López, Carlos Naranjo, 2010, Checklist, distribution, and habitat of the semiaquatic and aquatic bugs from Cuba (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Dipsocoromorpha, Leptopodomorpha, Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha), Zootaxa 2562, pp. 1-23 : 4

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.197138

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6207695

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scientific name

Metrobates tumidus Anderson, 1932
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Geographical distribution: endemic to the Caribbean subregion, occurring in Cuba, Hispaniola, and Jamaica islands.

Material from Cuba: Trinidad Mountains, Mina Carlotta , 22.III.1925, J. G. Myers leg., 1 ɗ, 3 Ψ (KU). Guantánamo, Baracoa, VIII.1901, A. Busck leg., 3 ɗ, 1 Ψ ( USNM) ( Drake and Harris 1932). Camaguey, Río Máximo, La Sabana, 4 Km. al Norte del Poblado Charles Morell, 6.VI.2002, O. Bello. Leg., 16 specimens ( NHMC); 18.VII.2003, O. Bello. leg., 8 specimens ( NHMC); Cañada Amarilla, 22.VI.2002, O. Bello. Leg., 5 specimens ( NHMC); 13.VIII. 2004, O. Bello. leg., 12 specimens ( NHMC) ( Bello 2004). Guantánamo, Parque Nacional Alejandro De Humboldt, Ceremonia B, III.2003, A. Trapero leg., 4 specimens ( NHMC) (González- Lazo et al. 2005). Santiago de Cuba, Dos Palmas, Río Palenque, Campo Rico, 5.XII.2005, Y. S. Megna leg., 1 specimen ( NMHC) ( Deler-Hernández et al. 2007).

Habitat: slower and central areas of fast running, clear water rivers up to 750 m above sea-level. Comments: the species seems to be quite common in Cuba, and Alayo (1967, 1974) mentioned its occurrence at Matanzas, Baracoa, Río Duaba; Habana, near Molena del Sur, Río Mayabeque; and Viñales, San Vicente, Río San Vicente.

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

NHMC

Natural History Museum, Rangoon

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Gerridae

Genus

Metrobates

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