Neoplea semipicta ( Horváth, 1918 )

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 : 492-493

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.6333302
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D7768787-FF94-0D18-1ADB-F92D17BFFEA0
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Neoplea semipicta ( Horváth, 1918 )
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Neoplea semipicta ( Horváth, 1918) View in CoL

Plea semipicta Horváth, 1918 : Annls. Mus. hist.-nat. hung., 145.

Neoplea semipicta: Polhemus, 1992 View in CoL : J. Kansas Entom. Soc., 441.

Material examined. Laguna Iberá RS: 1 ♀, Iberá Lagoon, Paso Claro, 28°33’29’’S, 57°11’37’’W, 16.ii.2018. Yahaveré RS: 1 ♂, Medina Lagoon, 13.xii.2014.

General distribution. Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina ( Moreira et al. 2011b).

Habitat. Very little information exists regarding the habitat associations of N. semipicta . It has been collected in lagoons in association with Pistia stratiotes , Pontederia crassipes and Egeria najas ( Neiff & Poi de Neiff 1979; Poi de Neiff 1979).

This species was previously recorded from Iberá in association with Salvinia biloba ( Poi de Neiff 2003) . During the present study, it was collected from unshaded margins with dense floating, emergent and submerged vegetation (mainly Pontederia azurea ) in the Iberá Lagoon and Medina Lagoon.