Buenoa antigone antigone (Kirkaldy, 1899)

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 : 18

Buenoa antigone antigone (Kirkaldy, 1899)

Geographical distribution: endemic to the Neotropical region, from Mexico to Argentina.

Material from Cuba: Camagüey, 2.VII.1923, J. Acuña leg., 1 ɗ, 2 Ψ (KU). Soledad, 14.II.1925, J. G. Meyers leg., 1 ɗ (probably USNM). La Habana, Botanical Garden, I.1925, P. J. Bermudez leg., 10 ɗ (KU). La Habana, Catalina, 27.XI.1933, P. J. Bermudez leg., 23 ɗ, 16 Ψ (KU) ( Truxal 1953). Isla de la Juventud, Cayo Piedra, 20.IV.1973, Cuban-Romanian Biospeological Expedition leg., 5 ɗ, 10 Ψ (SDH, SIB) ( Nieser 1977). Santiago de Cuba, Sierra Maestra, afluente del Arroyo La Santana, no date, Zayas leg., no specimen number ( NHMC); Palma Mocha, Arroyo Paco, no date, Zayas leg., no specimen number ( NHMC); Arroyo La Demajagua, no date, Zayas leg., no specimen number ( NHMC) ( Zayas 1986).

Habitat: most common species of the genus in Cuba, found in lakes and slow sections of streams up to 750 m above sea-level. Alayo (1967, 1974) mentioned collecting specimens on almost all Cuban provinces, but did not provide distributional details.