Ranatra macrophtalma Herrich-Schäffer, 1849

Peralta-Argomeda, Jorge Luis, Rodrigues, Juliana Mourão Dos Santos, Huamantinco-Araujo, Ana & Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, 2024, Checklist of the aquatic and semiaquatic bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha, Leptopodomorpha & Nepomorpha) of Peru, Zootaxa 5467 (1), pp. 1-72 : 38

Ranatra macrophtalma Herrich-Schäffer, 1849

Geographic distribution. Panama ( Montandon 1907), Trinidad & Tobago ( Hynes 1948), Colombia ( Mayr 1866), Venezuela ( Montandon 1907), Suriname ( Mayr 1866), French Guiana, Brazil ( Montandon 1907), Peru ( Kirkaldy & Torre-Bueno 1909), Bolivia ( Montandon 1905b), Paraguay ( De Carlo 1946).

Distribution in Peru. Unknown department ( Kirkaldy & Torre-Bueno 1909).

Notes. Originally described from “Ostindien?” (Herrich-Schäffer 1849), which was probably caused by mislabeling. Montandon (1905b) mentioned that specimens from Colombia and Suriname assigned to this species by Mayr (1866) could instead belong to R. robusta Montandon, 1905 . De Carlo (1973) synonymized R. hungerfordi Kuitert, 1949 with R. macrophtalma in a short passage of his introduction, which was ignored by Keffer (2004). The same author and several others (e.g., Ribeiro et al. 2018) ignored the synonymy between R. sattleri De Carlo, 1967 and R. macrophtalma proposed by Roback & Nieser (1974). Nieser (1975) noted that the material from Paraguay reported by De Carlo (1946, 1964b) probably refers to another species.