Halobates sobrinus White, 1883

Pacheco-Chaves, Bernald, Cordeiro, Isabelle Da Rocha Silva, Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo & Springer, Monika, 2018, The water striders (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerridae) of Costa Rica: new species, checklist, and new records, Zootaxa 4471 (3), pp. 493-522 : 509

Halobates sobrinus White, 1883

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Halobates sobrinus is an Eastern Pacific species, being more common along the American coast from the equator northward to the Gulf of California ( Ikawa et al. 2012). No specimens were collected during the current study, which focused on freshwater or estuarine habitats, although we examined material from the northern Pacific Coast of Costa Rica. The collections occurred in a beach and in the nearby Coco’s Island, about 500 km offshore. These represent the first records from the provinces of Guanacaste and Puntarenas.

Material examined. Guanacaste — Potrero Grande , ACG, (1. San José), EAP, 19.X.2005, (B. Gray & R. Chaves): 16 males, 21 females, 1 nymph ( MZUCR) . Puntarenas — Puntarenas, Coco ´s Island: 2 males, 1 female ( MZUCR) .

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FIGURE 13. Collecting records of Halobatinae within the Costa Rican territory.