Buenoa

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 : 117

Buenoa unguis Truxal

Fig. 57–59

Buenoa unguis Truxal, 1953: 1476 [Type locality: Vicinity of Rioja, Dept. San Martin, Peru; distribution and records: Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina; Types in Francis Huntington Snow Entomological Collections, University of Kansas ( U.S.A.)]; Truxal (1957): 17 [Systematics; expedition in Goiás and Tocantins ( Brazil)]; Bachmann (1971): 607 [Records: Paraguay, Argentina]; Nieser (1975): 178 [Records: Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina]; Andrade (1992): 596 [Larvicidal effect; Record: Pará ( Brazil)]; Nieser and Melo (1997): 15 [Key to Buenoa of Minas Gerais, Brazil]; Bachmann (1998): 179 [ Argentina]; Melo and Nieser (2004): 45 [Faunistical notes; survey: Januária ( Brazil)]; Herrera Millán (2005): 118 [Survey: Venezuela]; Barbosa et al. (2010b): 561 [Key to Buenoa of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil]; Ribeiro et al. (2010): 308 [Survey: Rio de Janeiro ( Brazil)]; Rico et al. (2010): 766 [Insecticide effect; Record: Manaus ( Brazil)]; Melo et al. (2011): 5 [Survey: Chaco National Park ( Argentina)]; Heckman (2011): 484 [Key to Buenoa of South America]; Moreira et al. (2011): 55 [Check-list of Brazil].

Comments. Buenoa unguis, with B. tarsalis , B. tibialis and B. femoralis are the largest species of Buenoa occurring in the Amazon Region. For comparisons see B. tarsalis .

Material. BRAZIL: Estado do Amazonas, Município de Presidente Figueiredo, U.H.E Balbina [1.915ºS / 59.473ºW], 15.I.1988 (B. Mascarenhas), det. J. F. Barbosa: 2 m and 2 f macropterous (MPEG); 18.I.1988: 3 m and 4 f macropterous (MPEG); Município de Manaus, AM 0 10, km 37, tanque de piscicultura [2.75ºS / 59.91ºW], 24.VI.2008 (R. G. Corrêa): 4 m and 3 f macropterous (INPA); Município de Iranduba, poça [3.2ºS / 60.1ºW], 08.VII.2008 (J. F. Barbosa, P. V. Cruz & L. M. Fusari): 12 m and 14 f macropterous (INPA); Estado do Pará, Município de Benevides, Fazenda Morelândia [1.410ºS / 48.250ºW], 31.III.1983 (B. Mascarenhas): 1 m macropterous (MPEG).

Figures

FIGURES 50 – 62. 50 – 52. Buenoa tibialis Truxal. 50, Lateral view of male rostrum with rostral prong shorter than third rostral segment. 51, Ventral view of male fore leg with stridulatory area on femur and slightly dissimilar teeth on tibia; 52, Claspers. 53 – 56. Buenoa truxali Nieser. 53, Lateral view of male rostrum with rostral prong as long about third rostral segment; 54, Ventral view of male fore leg with stridulatory area on femur, anterior margin of fore tibia acutely projected at apex and dissimilar teeth; 55, Detail of apex of fore tibia acutely projected; 56, Claspers. 57 – 59. Buenoa unguis Truxal. 57, Lateral view of male rostrum with rostral prong shorter than third rostral segment; 58, Ventral view of male fore leg without stridulatory area on femur, dissimilar teeth on tibia, and tarsus swollen with claws hooked; 59, Claspers. 60 – 62. Buenoa amnigenoidea Nieser. 60, Lateral view of male rostrum with rostral prong longer than third rostral segment; 61, Ventral view of male fore leg with a projection on trochanter, without stridulatory area on femur and dissimilar teeth on tibia; 62, Claspers.