HEMIPTERA

Iorio, Osvaldo Di & Turienzo, Paola, 2011, Insects found in birds’ nests from the Neotropical Region: addenda, corrections, and the Subantarctic Region of Argentina and adjacent countries 2950, Zootaxa 2950 (1), pp. 1-108 : 72-74

HEMIPTERA

Pentatomidae

Chinavia musiva (Berg, 1878)

ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires: [locality not stated], 114 exx. in a non-identified bird nest ( Matesco 2007); Glew, VII- 1973, 59 males, 54 females [ NMNH], “on nests of a non-identified bird” ( Matesco et al. 2008).

Note: “ Prosopis caldenia Burkart (Fabaceae) , Mimosa bimucronata (DC.) O. Kuntze (Fabaceae) , Citrus sp. (Rutaceae) , and Schinus sp. (Anacardiaceae) ,” without indication of locality, were mentioned as food plants of C. musiva by Matesco et al. (2008). In the summarization of known data of C. musiva, Turienzo & Di Iorio (2008) give only Prosopis caldenia Burkart, 1939 as a food plant in Argentina because of this tree is endemic from the central portion of the country ( Burkart 1976). According to Matesco (2007), materials that serve in the description of immature stages of C. musiva were collected in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Thus, Prosopis caldenia is a misidentification of Prosopis affinis Sprengel , not a Fabaceae [= Papilionoidea].

Reduviidae

Emesinae

Bergemesa brachamanni (Berg, 1884)

ARGENTINA: Santiago del Estero: Sumampa, km 340, 2-IX-1945, M. Conejos & J.W. Abalos leg., 1 nymph, 1 female [ IMR 408], in an old bird’s nest (Wygodzinsky 1950), in abandoned birds’ nests ( Wygodzinsky 1966); ( Hicks 1971 following Wygodzinsky 1950, 1966).

Triatominae

Mepraia gajardoi Frias, Henry, & Gonzalez, 1998

= Mepraia spinolai [non Porter, 1933], partim: Frías & Atria 1998: 179-184 [distr.; cytogen.; refs.]

CHILE: Región I: Arica, Caleta Vitor [Type-locality] 65 km S Arica city, on a nest of a sea bird, 4 males, 3 females ( Frías & Atria 1998: 180, Frias et al. 1998: 178), 7-V-1995, A. Henry leg., 1 female Holotype, # 991 [ IEUMCE], 7-V-1995, D. Frías & C. González leg., 1 female Paratype, # 4858 [ MNHN], 1 male Paratype, # 4859 [ MNHN], 2 females Paratypes, # 992 & # 993 [ IEUMCE], 2 males, # 994 & # 995 [ IEUMCE] (Frias et al. 1998: 179) .

Note: Although both works published in the same year deal with the same specimens, the work of Frías & Atria (1998) was received 12-VI-1997, six months after the work of Frías et al. (1998). Frías & Atria (1998) does not mention that the specimens of the Region I and II could be a different species. All posterior citations of M. gajardoi in birds’ nests seems to be originated regarding with part of the type series of specimens.

Pastrongylus geniculatus (Latreille, 1811)

Birds’ nests ( Maes 1992, following Lent & Wygodzinsky 1979).

Note: All habitats mentioned by Maes (1992) were extracted from Lent & Wygodzinsky (1979), and certainly do not correspond to Nicaragua. But the mention of P. geniculatus “under tree bark close to birds’ nests” of Lent & Wygodzinsky (1979) was transformed to “birds’ nests” by Maes (1992).

Psammolestes coreodes (Bergroth, 1911)

BOLIVIA: [Dto. Santa Cruz: provincia Cordillera]: Camiri, Neiva leg., 1 ex., collection of the Buenos Aires University, from bird nest ( Zischka 1949); Camiri, in bird nest ( Pisterna 1985, following Torrico 1946).

[ ARGENTINA]: nidicolous ( Jörg 1945); ( Lucena & Lucena 1965, following Abalos & Wygodzinsky 1951); Corrientes: Departamento Concepción, [localities not discriminated], 2 males, 1 female, “nidos de aves” (Oscherov et al. without date); Dto. San Luis del Palmar + Dto. Capital, 199 exx. in a total of 100 examined nests; Dto. Mercedes, 54 exx. in a total of 37 examined nests ( Dichtiar et al. 1991).

Psamolestes sp.

BRAZIL: Mato Grosso: Cuiabá, Fazenda São José , 23-I-1982, 3 exx., “ninhos de pássaros”; Fazenda Lobo, 23-1- 1982, 8 exx., “ninhos de pássaros” ( Nince 1983) .

Rhodnius ecuadoriensis Lent & León, 1958

ECUADOR: Portoviejo Co., Manabí province [El Bejuco (0º 57’ 24.75’’ S, 80º 19’ 34.12’’ W; 248 m) and Maconta Abajo (1º 5’ 40.88’’S, 80º 20’ 53.52’’ W; 290 m)], 131 exx. (21.8 ± 6.6 insects per nest), in 6 (7.8 %) positive from a total of 77 examined nests [woven stick nest from other nonidentifed species, and nests of Campylorhynchus fasciatus (Troglodytidae) ] ( Suarez-Davalos et al. 2010).

Note: Specimens of R. ecuadoriensis were not discriminated per locality or bird nest.

Rhodnius neglectus Lent, 1954

BRAZIL: Minas Gerais: surroundings of Bello Horizonte, IV-1979 through VII-1980, “tres vezes” “em ninhos de aves encontrados nas palmeiras,” in 81 “macaubeiras,” Acrocomia sclerocarpa [ Arecaceae ] ( Diotaiuti & Pinto Dias 1984).

Rhodnius pallescens Barber, 1932

PANAMA: Panama Province, 123 triatomines, from bird nests, all of which were abandoned ( Christensen & Vasquez 1981).

Note 1: Birds’ nests are not included among the biotopes in which triatomines were collected, but it seems that these birds’ nests do not correspond to the nests in chicken and pigeon coops. Feeding profiles of the triatomines in these three biotopes were separately given ( Christensen & Vasquez 1981).

Note 2: Schofield (2000) mentions birds’ nests as one of the habitats of R. pallescens , following Whitlaw & Chaniotis (1978), but the latter found R. pallescens only on palm trees. Bird nests of Chestnut-headed Oropendola ( Zarhynchus wagleri ) and Ovenbirds ( Automolus sp. ) were examined by Whitlaw & Chaniotis (1978), but with negative results.

Note 3: Pipkin (1968) also states that 36 Oropendola nests and 18 other bird nests were negative for triatomines [localities were not discriminated].

Triatoma guasayana Wygdzinsky & Abalos, 1949

[ ARGENTINA] ( Martínez & Cichero 1972).

Triatoma infestans infestans (Klug in Meigen, 1834)

[ ARGENTINA] ( Romaña 1947): Santiago del Estero: 24 adults and 34 nymphs in 4 nests ( Barretto et al. 1963, following Mazza 1943); La Rioja: more than 5 km from Guayapa, in one abandoned nest, temporally occupied by Graomys griseoflavus [ Mammalia: Rodentia ] ( Blaksley & Carcavallo 1968); ( Martínez et al. 1985); [Mendoza]: in a nest occupied by Graomys sp. [ Mammalia: Rodentia ] ( Barretto et al. 1963, following de la Barrera 1939); ( Freijas 1963, following de la Barrera 1939); ( Noireau et al. 1997, following Bejarano 1967); Salta ( Ceballos et al. 2009, following Mazza 1936).

Note: Ceballos et al. (2009) erroneously stated that “the first records of T. infestans in sylvatic habitats apparently were provided by Mazza and others (Mazza 1936, Mazza et al. 1936, Mazza and Schreiber 1938), who found colonies with nymphs or eggs in tree holes, under the bark of trees, cacti, bird ( Pseudoseisura lophotes Reichenbach ), and opossum ( Didelphis sp. ) nests, sometimes far from houses in Salta and Mendoza provinces ( Argentina).” All such records were carefully summarized by Turienzo & Di Iorio (2007: table 1), from which it can be seen that Mazza identified T. infestans in a bird nest from Salta, and T. platensis in a nest of P. lophotes from Mendoza.

Triatoma maculata (Erichson in Schomburgk, 1848)

[ VENEZUELA]: “en muy escaso numero, en los [nidos] de … arrendajos y otros, siempre con muy baja densidad” ( Gamboa Cuadrado 1974).

Triatoma patagonica Del Ponte, 1929

[ ARGENTINA] ( Martínez & Cichero 1972).

Note: Original citation not found.

Triatoma platensis Neiva, 1913

[ ARGENTINA]: nidicolous and cavicolous species ( Jörg 1945); ( Romaña 1947); nests of various birds ( Usinger et al. 1966); ( Martínez & Cichero 1972); Corrientes: Dto. San Luis del Palmar + Dto. Capital, 56 exx. in a total of 100 examined nests; Dto. Mercedes, 30 exx. in a total of 37 examined nests ( Dichtiar et al. 1991); [La Rioja : Dto. Capital, surroundings of La Rioja city], in abandoned birds’ nest occupied by arboricolous rodents and Ataenius punctatohirsutus Schmidt, 1909 [ Scarabaeidae : Aphodiinae] ( Martínez 1952; Stebnicka 2006, following Martínez 1952); [Mendoza]: in a nest occupied by Graomys [ griseoflavus (Waterhouse) ] ( Freijas 1963, following de la Barrera 1939).

Triatoma sordida [garciabesi Carcavallo, Cichero, Martínez, Prosen & Ronderos, 1967]

= Triatoma sordida: Del Ponte 1959: 409-410 [distr.; biol.]; Freijas 1963 [host]

ARGENTINA: dry plains of northeastern, under bark of trees and in birds’ nests ( Del Ponte 1959, following Abalos & Wygodzinsky 1951); dry zone of the country, Espinal, in birds’ nests ( Blaksley & Carcavallo 1968); ( Martínez & Cichero 1972); ( Zeledón & Rabinovich 1981); Salta + Santiago del Estero ( Usinger et al. 1966); [Mendoza]: in a nest occupied by Graomys [ griseoflavus (Waterhouse) ] ( Freijas 1963 following de la Barrera 1939).

Undetermined family

Undetermined sp.

= Ornithocoris sp. : Otto et al. 2008: 99-101 [distr.; hosts; fig.]

BRAZIL: Rio Grande do Sul: Município de Santa Maria, Santa María, “percevejos no ambiente em uma residência, no forro da casa havia ninhos de pássaros; segundo caso em um apartamento no centro da cidade, com a presença de um ninho de pássaros na caixa da janela de um dos quartos da residência; quando as aves abandonavam o ninho, o inseto não era mais observado e os sinais clínicos desapareciam; ambos ocorreram na primavera, período em que havia ninhos de pássaros no forro da casa e na janela do apartamento” ( Otto et al. 2008).

Note: The insects in figure 1 given by Otto et al. (2008) do not belong to Cimicidae . They are nymphs with pterothecae in the meso- and metathorax, and the rostrum reaches the posterior margin of the middle coxae. Identification of this insect was done by the shape of fecal spots in furniture using the work of Schofield et al. (1986)!

VIREONIDAE

Vireo leucophrys chiriquensis (Bangs)

SIPHONAPTERA : Ceratophyllidae

Dasypsyllus (Dasypsyllus) gallinulae perpinnatus Baker, 1904

PANAMA: Chiriqui: Cerro Punta , I-1960, V-1960, IV-1961, III-1962, C.L. Hayward, C. M. Keenan, V.J. Tipton & C.E. Yunker leg., 3 males, 7 females, from nests ( Tipton & Mendez 1966) .

III. Subantarctic Region (Antarctic Dominion) of Argentina and adjacent countries

ACCIPITRIDAE

Geranoaetus melanoleucus (Vieillot, 1819)

[ DIPTERA: Undetermined family]

[Undetermined sp.]

ARGENTINA: Santa Cruz: Dto. Deseado, Ea. El Cuadro, 47º 30’ S, 68º 00’ W, two nests were very infested with insects (larvae of flies); some nests with prey remains, and abundant flies and larvae from a total of six examined active nests ( Saggese & De Lucca 2001) .

Note: Probably these larvae belong to cadaveric fauna ( Diptera : Calliphoridae and/or Sarcophagidae ) related to prey remains.

CHARADRIIDAE

Vanellus chilensis (Molina, 1782)

= Belanopterus chilensis : Costa Lima & Hathaway 1946: 149 [cat.].

= Belenopterus cajennensis: García 1959: 579 [host].

= Belonopterus chilensis: Jordan 1942a: 434 [distr.; host]; Costa Lima & Hathaway 1946: 322-323 [cat.]; Capri & Capri 1959: 583 [cat.]; Costa Lima & Hathaway 1946: 149 [cat.].

= Belanopterus molina: Jordan 1933: 360 [distr.; host], 361 [host]; Johnson 1957: 116 [distr.; host]

= Belonopterus molina : Costa Lima & Hathaway 1946: 322-323 [cat.]