Pagasa fuscipennis Reuter, 1909

Cornelis, Marcela & Coscaron, Maria C., 2013, The Nabidae (Insecta, Hemiptera, Heteroptera) of Argentina, ZooKeys 333, pp. 1-30 : 5-6

Pagasa fuscipennis Reuter, 1909 Figs 1 a–k, 13a

Pagasa nitida Berg 1884. Annales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina 2: 105.

Pagasa fuscipennis Reuter and Poppius 1909. Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae 37: 30. Pennington 1921. Lista de los Hemipteros de la Républica Argentina. Segunda Parte: 26. Harris 1939. Notas del Museo de La Plata 26: 369. Ruffinelli and Pirán 1959. Boletín de la Facultad de Agronomía de Montevideo 51: 41. Kerzhner and Konstantinov 2008. Zoosystematica Rossica 17: 38. Volpi and Coscarón 2010. Zootaxa 2513: 62.

Material examined.

ARGENTINA: BUENOS AIRES: Prov. de Buenos Aires, J. Bosq. 1 ♀ (MLP); Ciudad de Buenos Aires 34°36'30.30"S, 58°22'23.38"W, 25 –XII– 1918 Bosq. col., 1 ♀ (MLP); Ciudad de Buenos Aires, 9 –III– 1914, 1 ♀ (MLP); Caballito 34°37'0.00"S, 58°27'0.00"W, I– 1928 Bosq. col., 1 ♀ (MLP); Chacabuco 34°38'9.36"S, 60°27'54.44"W, F. Lynch col., Harris det. 1 ♀ (MLP). CHACO: Km 42, 18 –V– 1936 P. Denier det., 1 ♀ (MLP); Resistencia 27°27'5.96"S, 58°59'10.51"W, 21 –I– 1939 Harris det. 1 ♀ (MLP). SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO: Río Salado, Wagner col., 1 ♀ (MLP). URUGUAY: Montevideo, Colón 34°48'8.30"S, 56°13'26.90"W, 12 –I– 1929 A. Montora col., Harris det., 1 ♀ (MLP).

Distribution in Argentina.

Buenos Aires: Caballito, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Chacabuco, Ciudad de Bs. As., San Fernando, Tandil; Chaco: Resistencia; Chubut: Rio Turbio, El Maiten, Pedregos Epuyen; Córdoba: Alta Gracia Misiones; Río Negro: Ñorquinco, El Bolsón; Salta: Metan; San Luis; Santa Fé: Ciudad de Santa Fé.

Distribution outside Argentina.

Brazil: Goyas, São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Santa Catarina; Paraguay: Asunción, Horqueta; Uruguay: Colonia, Montevideo, Soriano.

Measurements.

Female (n = 5): Length 5.00-6.36 (mean = 5.96). Head: length 0.82-0.90 (mean = 0.85), width 0.82-0.91 (mean = 0.89); eye width 0.41-0.48 (mean = 0.45), interocular width 0.29-0.33 (mean = 0.30). Rostrum: ratio of segment lengths about 1: 1.96: 2.28: 1. Antenna: ratio of segment about 1: 0.57: 2.48: 2.27: 2.21. Pronotum length 1.35-1.59 (mean = 1.47), width 1.69-1.88 (mean = 1.77). Hemelytra length 2.07-4.05 (mean = 3.47). Abdomen: length 2.17-2.66 (mean = 2.47), width 1.93- 2.18 (mean = 2.07). Legs: fore femora: length 1.24-1.35 (mean = 1.31), width 0.42-0.53 (mean = 0.47); middle femora: length 1.21-1.40 (mean = 1.33), width 0.27-0.33 (mean = 0.30); hind femora 1.78-1.83 (mean = 1.81), width 0.29-0.33 (mean = 0.31). Fore tibiae: length 1.03-1.25 (mean = 1.12), width 0.21-0.29 (mean = 0.27); middle tibiae: length 1.11-1.35 (mean = 1.24), width 0.14-0.19 (mean = 0.15); hind tibiae: length 1.87-2.12 (mean = 2.01), width 0.09-0.17 (mean = 0.13).

Eggs (Fig. 1g). Length 1.08-1.12 (mean = 1.10; n = 4), width 0.28-0.36 (mean = 0.31; n = 4). Microsculpture absent. Mature eggs were taken from dissected female oviducts.

New record.

Argentina: La Pampa, Santa Rosa: 36°37'17.41"S, 64°17'5.91"W, Cornelis col.