Belostoma stollii ( Amyot & Serville, 1843 )

Franco, Cleilton Lima, Stefanello, Fabiano, Azevêdo, Carlos Augusto Silva de & Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, 2024, Belostomatidae Leach, 1815 (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Nepomorpha) of northeastern Brazil, European Journal of Taxonomy 932, pp. 271-304 : 289-290

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https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2024.932.2537

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11190514

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scientific name

Belostoma stollii ( Amyot & Serville, 1843 )
status

 

Belostoma stollii ( Amyot & Serville, 1843) View in CoL

Figs 13 View Figs 9–16 , 44 View Figs 42–45. 42–44

Diagnosis

Body broad (length 2 × width); length of anteoculus 1.15–1.59 × length of interoculus ( Ribeiro 2007).

Material examined

BRAZIL – Maranhão • 1 ♀; Cândido Mendes municipality, Fazenda 7 Irmãos ; 1°52′06″ S, 45°45′59.7″ W; 2–6 Jul. 2019; F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, D. Limeira and J.S. Brito leg. [00130]; C.L. Franco det. 2021; CZMA GoogleMaps 1 ♂; Carolina municipality, Perímetro Urbano ; 7°19′40″ S, 47°27′14″ W; 25–26 Dec. 2013; F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, T.T. Silva and T.L. Rocha leg. [00054]; C.L. Franco det. 2021; CZMA GoogleMaps 1 ♂; C.N [Centro Novo do Maranhão] municipality, Reserva Biologica do Gurupi, REBIO ; 3°14′01″ S, 46°40′52″ W; 7–15 Jan. 2011; F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, M.M. Abreu and A.S. Barbosa leg. [00070]; C.L. Franco det. 2021; CZMA GoogleMaps .

Distribution

BOLIVIA ( De Carlo 1966); BRAZIL ( Kirkaldy & Torre-Bueno 1909): Alagoas ( Dubeux et al. 2020), Amazonas ( Lauck 1963; Ribeiro 2007; Almeida et al. 2019), Maranhão (this work); Mato Grosso ( De Carlo 1950; Lauck 1963), Minas Gerais ( Nieser & Melo 1997; Munhoz et al. 2020), Pará ( Ribeiro 2000, 2007), Rio de Janeiro ( Ribeiro 2000, 2005, 2007), Roraima ( Almeida et al. 2019); FRENCH GUIANA ( Amyot & Serville 1843); GUYANA ( Erichson 1848); PARAGUAY ( Arnold 2014); PERU ( Lauck 1963); SURINAME ( Lauck 1963); VENEZUELA ( Lauck 1963).

Distribution in northeastern Brazil

Alagoas and Maranhão.

Note

These are the first records of this species from the state of Maranhão.

Almeida T. M., Stefanello F. & Hamada N. 2019. Belostomatidae (Heteroptera: Nepomorpha) held in the Invertebrate Collection of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, Manaus, Brazil: inventory and new distributional records. Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia 59: e 20195906, 1 - 23. https: // doi. org / 10.11606 / 1807 - 0205 / 2019.59.06

Amyot C. J. B. & Serville A. 1843. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Hemipteres. Librarie Encyclopedique de Roret, Paris. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 8471

Arnold K. 2014. Beitrage zur Taxonomie, Faunistik und Okologie insbesondere tropischer Heteropteren. Edessana 1: 27 - 118.

De Carlo J. A. 1938. Los Belostomidos americanos. Anales del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales ' Bernardino Rivadavia' Buenos Aires 39: 189 - 260.

De Carlo J. A. 1950. Descripcion de Especies Nuevas de Ranatridae y Belostomidae y algunas Aclaraciones Referentes a Otras Conocidas (Hemiptera). Revista Brasileira de Biologia 4: 521 - 532.

De Carlo J. A. 1966. Un nuevo genero, nuevas especies y referencias de otras poco conocidas de la familia Belostomidae (Hemiptera). Revista de la Sociedad Entomologica Argentina 28: 97 - 109.

Dubeux M. J. M., Andrade A. B. de & Rodrigues H. D. D. 2020. Hylomantis granulosa (Granular Leaf Frog). Predation. Herpetological Review 4: 819. https: // doi. org / 10.1038 / 068092 a 0

Dufour L. 1863. Essai monographique sur les belostomides. Annales de la Societe entomologique de France 4: 373 - 404.

Erichson W. F. 1848. Insecten. In: Schomburgk R. (ed.) Reisen in Britisch-Guiana in den Jahren 1840 - 1844: 553 - 617. JJ. Weber, Leipzig.

Herrich-Schaffer G. A. W. 1848. Die wanzenartigen Insecten. Getreu nach der Natur abgebildet und beschrieben, vol. 8. J. L. Lotsbeck, Nurnberg.

Kirkaldy G. W. & Torre-Bueno J. R. de la 1909. A catalogue of American aquatic and semi-aquatic Hemiptera. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 10: 173 - 192. Available from https: // biostor. org / reference / 58168 [accessed 7 Mar. 2024].

Lauck D. R. 1963. A monograph of the genus Belostoma (Hemiptera), Part II. B. aurivillianum, stollii, testaceopallidum, dilatatum, and discretum groups. Bulletin of the Chicago Academy of Sciences 11 (4): 82 - 101.

Lauck D. R. 1964. A monograph of the genus Belostoma (Hemiptera) Part III. B. triangulum, bergi, minor, bifoveolatum, and flumineum groups. Bulletin of the Chicago Academy of Sciences 11 (5): 102 - 154.

Mayr G. L. 1863. Hemipterogische Studien. Die Belostomiden. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13: 339 - 364.

Montandon A. L. 1900. Notes sur quelques hemiperes heteropteres et description d'especes nouvelles des collections du Musee Civique de Genes. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 2: 531 - 54.

Montandon A. L. 1908. Nouvelles especes d'hemipteres aquatiques. Annales musei nationalis hungarici 6: 299 - 304.

Munhoz I. L. A., Serrao J. E., Dias G., Lino-Neto J., Melo A. L. de & Araujo V. A. 2020. Anatomy and histology of the male reproductive tract in giant water bugs of the genus Belostoma Latreille, 1807 (Heteroptera, Belostomatidae). International Journal of Tropical Insect Science 41: 303 - 311. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 42690 - 020 - 00207 - 7

Nieser N. & Melo A. L. de 1997. Os Heteropteros Aquaticos de Minas Gerais - Guia Introdutorio com Chave de Identificacao para as Especies de Nepomorpha e Gerromorpha. Editora UFMG, Belo Horizonte.

Ribeiro J. R. I. 2000. Description of the male of Belostoma foveolatum and new records of B. costalimai and B. stollii (Heteroptera: Belostomatidae). Entomological News 111 (3): 159 - 170.

Ribeiro J. R. I. 2005. Familia Belostomatidae Leach, 1815 (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera): chave e catalogo de identificacao para as especies ocorrentes no Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Arquivos do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro 63: 247 - 262.

Ribeiro J. R. I. 2007. A review of the species of Belostoma Latreille, 1807 (Insecta, Heteroptera, Belostomatidae) from the four southeastern Brazilian states. Zootaxa 1477 (1): 1 - 70.

Gallery Image

Figs 9–16. Dorsal and ventral habitus of examined species of Belostomatidae. 9. Belostoma discretum Montandon, 1903, ♂, Carolina municipality. 10. B. micantulum (Stål, 1860), ♂, Caxias municipality. 11. B. nessimiani Ribeiro & Alecrim, 2008, ♂, Caxias municipality. 12. B. aurivillianum (Montandon, 1899), ♂, Cândido Mendes municipality. 13. B. stollii (Amyot & Serville, 1843), ♀, Cândido Mendes municipality. 14. Lethocerus annulipes (Herrich-Schäffer, 1845), ♂, Ubajara municipality. 15. L. delpontei De Carlo, 1930, ♂, Caxias municipality. 16. L. maximus De Carlo, 1938, ♀, Riachão municipality. Scale bars: 9–11, 14–16 = 10 mm; 12–13 = 1 mm.

Gallery Image

Figs 42–45. 42–44. Geographic distribution of Belostoma in Brazil: yellow circles and gray stars indicate known records, red circles and stars indicate new records. 42. Belostoma discretum Montandon, 1903. 43. B. micantulum (Stål, 1860) and B. nessimiani Ribeiro & Alecrim, 2008. 44. B. aurivillianum (Montandon, 1899) and B. stollii (Amyot & Serville, 1843). 45. Distribution of Lethocerus annulipes (Herrich-Schäffer, 1845), L. delpontei De Carlo, 1930 and L. maximus De Carlo, 1938: yellow circles, gray stars, and orange cross indicate known records, red circles, stars, and cross indicate new records.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

SubOrder

Heteroptera

Family

Belostomatidae

SubFamily

Belostomatinae

Tribe

Belostomatini

Genus

Belostoma