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Issue: Vol. 3427 No. 1: 17 Aug. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-08-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3427.1.3
Page range: 33–46
Abstract views: 77
PDF downloaded: 1

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

Universidad de Nariño, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Departamento de Biología, Ciudad Universitaria Torobajo, San Juan de Pasto, Nariño, Colombia
Universidad de Costa Rica, Escuela de Biología; San Pedro de Montes de Oca, San José, Costa Rica
Hemiptera aquatic insects small water strider tropical Pacific south-west Colombia

Abstract

Three species of the genus Rheumatobates, R. peculiaris, R. longisetosus, and R. probolicornis are recorded from the Pacific coast of Colombia, municipality of Tumaco (department of Nariño); and R. bergrothi is recorded from the Pacific coast of Costa Rica; the macropterous morph of R. longisetosus is described, ecological data are provided and it is included together with other four species in a key to adult males from Eastern Tropical Pacific; the male habitus for six species is illustrated.

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