Hydrometra caraiba Guérin-Méneville, 1857

Moreno-R., Claudia, Molina-J., Wendy, Barbosa, Julianna Freires & Moreira, Felipe, 2018, Aquatic and semiaquatic bugs (Insecta, Hemiptera, Heteroptera) from Toluviejo Municipality, Sucre Department, Caribbean region of Colombia, Check List 14 (6), pp. 985-1002 : 992-993

Hydrometra caraiba Guérin-Méneville, 1857

New records. Colombia: Sucre: Toluviejo: Bobo Stream, station 1 (09°33′47″ N, 075°24′51″ W), Wendy Molina- J., 28.III.2015 (WMJ 031). Colombia: Sucre: Toluviejo: Bobo Stream, station 1 (09°33′47″ N, 075°24′51″ W), Wendy Molina-J., 18.III.2017 (WMJ 072). Colombia: Sucre: Toluviejo: Bobo Stream, station 2 (09°33′45″ N, 075°24′46″ W), Claudia Moreno-R., 18.III.2017 (CMR 122). Colombia: Sucre: Toluviejo: Bobo Stream, station 4 (09°33′49″ N, 075°24′49″ W), Claudia Moreno-R., 28.II.2015 (CMR 077). Colombia: Sucre: Toluviejo: Bobo Stream, station 4 (09°33′49″ N, 075°24′49″ W), Wendy Molina-J., 11.IV.2017 (WMJ 080). Colombia: Sucre: Toluviejo: Bobo Stream, station 5 (09°33′48″ N, 075°24′52″ W), Wendy Molina-J., 28.II.2015 (WMJ 029). Colombia: Sucre: Toluviejo: Bobo Stream, station 5 (09°33′48″ N, 075°24′52″ W), Claudia Moreno-R., 16.V.2015 (CMR 093). Colombia: Sucre: Toluviejo: Bobo Stream, station 6 (09°33′46″ N, 075°24′51″ W), Wendy Molina-J., 28.II.2015 (WMJ 030). Colombia: Sucre: Toluviejo: Pechilín Stream, station 1 (09°26′11″ N, 075°26′21″ W), Wendy Molina-J., 11.IV.2015 (WMJ 037). Colombia: Sucre: Toluviejo: Pechilín Stream, station 2 (09°26′08″ N, 075°26′15″ W), Wendy Molina-J., 01.IV.2017 (WMJ 077). Colombia: Sucre: Toluviejo: Pechilín Stream, station 3 (09°26′10″ N, 075°26′27″ W), Claudia Moreno-R., 01.IV.2017 (CMR 127). Colombia: Sucre: Toluviejo: Pechilín Stream, station 4 (09°25′50″ N, 075°25′36″ W), Wendy Molina-J., 25.II.2017 (WMJ 071). Colombia: Sucre: Toluviejo: Pechilín Stream, station 4 (09°25′50″ N, 075°25′36″ W), Claudia Moreno-R., 29.IV.2017 (CMR 136). Colombia: Sucre: Toluviejo: Camarón Stream (09°32′32″ N, 075°24′33″ W), Claudia Moreno-R., 11.II.2017 (CMR 115).

Identification. Males of H. caraiba were promptly identified by the abdominal sternite VII with a pair of curved brushes of setae located approximately in the middle of the segment. Females were identified by the combination of body about 18 mm long; clypeus broad, subquadrate, with a blunt median projection; and pro- and mesoacetabula with circular punctures ( Moreira and Barbosa 2013).

Distribution in the Colombian Caribbean region. Atlántico ( Hungerford and Evans 1934), Cesar (Morales- Castaño et al. 2008), Magdalena ( Torre-Bueno 1926, Hungerford and Evans 1934), Sucre (this work).