Tachygerris opacus ( Champion, 1898 )

Rodrigues, Juliana Mourão Dos Santos, Crumière, Antonin Jean Johan, Mondragón-F, Silvia Patricia, Morales, Irina, Khila, Abderrahman & Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, 2021, Description of a new species and new records of Gerromorpha (Insecta: Hemiptera Heteroptera) from Panama and Colombia, Zootaxa 4958 (1), pp. 226-251 : 248

Tachygerris opacus ( Champion, 1898)

( Figs 60 , 62 )

New records. PANAMA • 5 macropterous male, 2 macropterous females; Colón, Pipeline Road, Seda River ; 9.15329° N, - 79.73663° W; 6 May 2015; A.J.J. Crumière leg.; CEIOC 81260 • 2 macropterous females; Colón, Pipeline Road, Seda River ; 9.15329° N, - 79.73663° W; 7 May 2015; A.J.J. Crumière leg.; CEIOC 81261 • 1 macropterous female; Panama, Plantation Road , dry creek, puddle; 9.08556° N, - 79.65841° W; 17 May 2015; A.J.J. Crumière leg.; CEIOC 79956 .

Remarks. Tachygerris opacus is found mainly west of the Andes, from Belize to Ecuador ( Pacheco-Chaves et al. 2018), with more scarce reports from the Amazon (e.g., Kuitert 1942; Nieser 1970; Morales & Molano 2009). It has been recorded a few times from Panama, including the provinces of Chiriquí ( Champion 1898) and Panama ( Champion 1898; Torre-Bueno 1926; Kuitert 1942; Calabrese & Tallerico 1987; Damgaard et al. 2014). We report here the occurrence of the species in Colón Province for the first time.

Figures

FIGURES 54–60. Habitus, dorsal view. 54, Metrobates laudatus Drake & Harris, 1937. 55–56, Telmatometra ujhelyii Esaki, 1926. 55, Apterous. 56, Macropterous. 57, Potamobates anchicaya Polhemus & Polhemus, 1995. 58, Brachymetra albinervus (Amyot & Serville, 1843). 59, Limnogonus hyalinus (Fabricius, 1803). 60, Tachygerris opacus (Champion, 1898). Scale bars: 2.0 mm.

FIGURES 61–62. Distribution of new records from Panamá. 61, Metrobates laudatus Drake & Harris, 1937 in yellow circle; Telmatometra ujhelyii Esaki, 1926 in blue triangle. 62, Potamobates anchicaya Polhemus & Polhemus, 1995 in red circle; Brachymetra albinervus (Amyot & Serville, 1843) in yellow triangle; Limnogonus hyalinus (Fabricius, 1803) in blue circle; Tachygerris opacus (Champion, 1898) in green asterisk.