Buenoa paranensis Jaczewski

Barbosa, Julianna Freires & Nessimian, Jorge Luiz, 2013, The genus Buenoa Kirkaldy, 1904 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Nepomorpha: Notonectidae) in northern Brazil: inventory, new records, and new species, Zootaxa 3694 (2), pp. 101-130 : 113

Buenoa paranensis Jaczewski

Fig. 40–42

Buenoa paranensis Jaczewski, 1928: 126 [Type locality: Rio da Areia, Paraná, Brazil; Types were in Warsaw Museum ( Poland)9]; Truxal (1953): 1486 (Note); Truxal (1957): 14 [Systematics; expedition in Goiás and Tocantins, Brazil]; Melo and Nieser (2004): 45 [Faunistical notes; survey: Januária ( Brazil)]; Heckman (2011): 480 [Key to Buenoa of South America]; Moreira et al. (2011): 55 [Check-list of Brazil].

Buenoa paranaensis: Nieser and Melo (1997) : 79 [Wrong spelling; Key to Buenoa of Minas Gerais, Brazil]; Souza et al. (2006): 809 [Survey: Mariana ( Brazil)].

Comments. Buenoa paranensis is a little-known species, occurring in the North Region (State of Tocantins) recorded by Truxal (1957).

The description by Jaczewski (1928) lacks important information about characteristics currently used to identify the species of the genus, such as the relation between head width and vertex width, the length of the rostral prong, the amount of stridulatory ridges on the fore femur, and the relation between length and width of the fore femur. The original illustration of the rostrum renders conclusions about the proportion of the third rostral segment and rostral prong difficult. Because of these omissions, this species needs to be redescribed.

Figures

FIGURES 38 – 49. 38 – 39. Buenoa pallipes (Fabricius). 38, Lateral view of male rostrum with rostral prong distinctly longer than third rostral segment; 39, Ventral view of male fore leg with stridulatory area on femur and dissimilar teeth on tibia. 40 – 42. Buenoa paranensis Jaczewski. 40, Frontal view of male rostrum; 41, Ventral view of male fore leg with stridulatory area on femur and similar teeth on tibia; 42, Claspers. 43 – 45. Buenoa platycnemis (Fieber). 43, Lateral view of male rostrum distinctly longer than third rostral segment; 44, Ventral view of male fore leg with stridulatory area on femur and similar stridulatory teeth on tibia; 45, Claspers. 46 – 49. Buenoa tarsalis Truxal. 46, Lateral view of male rostrum with rostral prong slightly longer than third rostral segment; 47, Ventral view of male fore leg with stridulatory area on femur and slightly dissimilar teeth on tibia; 48, First tarsal segment of mid-leg deeply emarginate; 49, Claspers. Scale bar: 0.5 mm.