Lethocerus maximus De Carlo, 1938

Mazzucconi, Silvia Ana, Reyes, Cristina Armúa De & Estévez, Ana Lía, 2022, Aquatic and semiaquatic Heteroptera (Insecta: Hemiptera) from Iberá Natural Reserve (Corrientes Province, Argentina), Zootaxa 5104 (4), pp. 451-505 : 478

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5104.4.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D2B6F489-D907-4AC7-9C09-8464DF56BCED

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6333274

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D7768787-FFA6-0D29-1ADB-FB231690F92D

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scientific name

Lethocerus maximus De Carlo, 1938
status

 

Lethocerus maximus De Carlo, 1938 View in CoL

Lethocerus maximus De Carlo, 1938 View in CoL : Anls. Mus. Arg. Cien. Nat., 209–210.

Material examined. Laguna Iberá RS: 3 ♂, Fernández Lagoon, 11.xii.2014.

General distribution. The Lesser Antilles, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina ( Moreira et al. 2011b).

Habitat. Lethocerus maximus has been found in rivers, a reservoir, and it has been taken at lights ( Nieser & Alkins-Koo 1991; Perez Goodwyn 2006; Armúa de Reyes & Estévez 2016; Almeida et al. 2019). This species was collected together with L. annulipes in the Paraná River ( Argentina), in association with Salvinia sp. and Pontederia crassipes ( Armúa de Reyes & Estévez 2016) .

At the INR, specimens were collected from the margins of the Fernández Lagoon, exposed to sunlight and with submerged, emergent, and floating vegetation.

Remarks. This is the first record of L. maximus from INR. This species was previously recorded from Corrientes Province ( Armúa de Reyes & Estévez 2016).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Belostomatidae

Genus

Lethocerus

Loc

Lethocerus maximus De Carlo, 1938

Mazzucconi, Silvia Ana, Reyes, Cristina Armúa De & Estévez, Ana Lía 2022
2022
Loc

Lethocerus maximus

De Carlo 1938
1938
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