Buenoa pallipes (Fabricius)

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 : 112-113

Buenoa pallipes (Fabricius)

Fig. 38–39

Notonecta pallipes Fabricius, 1803: 103 [Americae Infulis; Type in Musem of Lund ( Sweden)].

Anisops pallipes: Stål (1868) : 137 [New combination; Insulae Americae]; Champion (1901): 372 [ México, Panamá, Antilles]. Buenoa pallipes: Kirkaldy (1904) : 123 [New combination; Note; distribution: Martinique, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, México, Ecuador, Panamá, Bolivia, Venezuela]; Kirkaldy and Torre-Bueno (1909): 201 [Note; distribution: México, Panamá, Martinique, Jamaica, Guadeloupe, Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia]; Kirkaldy (1913): 555 [Survey: Hawaii]; Perkins (1913): 190 (cxc), 203 (cciii) [Survey: Hawaii]; Barber (1939): 421 [Notes; distribution: Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands]; Hungerford (1939): 588 [Survey: Costa Rica]; Williams (1944): 193 [Biology]; Zimmerman (1948): 232 [Survey: Hawaii]; Truxal (1953): 1418 [Revision; Distribution and records: México, Honduras, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Antigua and Barbuda, Virgin Islands, Guadeloupe, Colombia, Peru, Paraguay]; De abate (1960): 21 [Survey: Costa Rica; Distribution: Honduras, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Peru, Paraguay]; Nieser (1969): 96 [Survey: Antillean; Distribution: Ilesdes-Saintes]; Nieser (1970): 85 [Survey: South America; Record: Brazil]; Nieser (1975): 191 [Note]; Froeschner (1981): 60 [Survey: Ecuador]; Nieser and Alkins-Koo (1991): 34 [Note]; Padilla-Gil and Nieser (1992): 77 [Notes; Record: Colombia]; Padilla-Gil (2002): 485 [Revision in Colombia]; Morales-Castaño and Molano-Rendón (2008): 124 [Survey: Quindió ( Colombia)]; Heckman (2011): 472 [Key to Buenoa of South America]; Moreira et al. (2011): 55 [Check-list of Brazil].

Comments. Buenoa pallipes was not observed in this study and was recorded in the States of Pará and Amazonas by Nieser (1970). According to Truxal (1953), this species is similar to B. platycnemis and B. pallens (for comparisons see the cited species).

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.