Tachygerris cf. surinamensis Hungerford & Matsuda, 1958

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 : 508-509

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4471.3.4

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5959002

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scientific name

Tachygerris cf. surinamensis Hungerford & Matsuda, 1958
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Tachygerris cf. surinamensis Hungerford & Matsuda, 1958 View in CoL

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We have several males and females from Alajuela Province that agree well with T. surinamensis . However, because the known distribution of the species is restricted to northern Brazil and Suriname, and no specimens have been examined in two recent revisions of the genus ( Morales & Molano 2009, Mondragón et al. 2017), our identification is provisional, pending confirmation. If confirmed, the first record from Costa Rica would represent a wide westward expansion of the range of this species. Our material was collected in the same type of habitats as those of T. opacus and T. quadrilineatus , in the Atlantic and Pacific slopes up to 876 m a.s.l.

Material examined. Alajuela— Upala , Canalete River Hydropower Project , N 10° 46.467’, W -83° 02.700’, 325 m a.s.l, 24.VIII.2008, (B. Pacheco): 2 males ( MZUCR) . San Ramón , REBAMB, X.2008, (B. Pacheco): 1

male, 1 female (MZUCR). REBAMB, San Ramón, N 10° 13’ 06.8’’, W -84° 35’ 48.9’’, 876 m a.s.l, 1.I.2010, (B. Pacheco): 4 males, 3 females, 4 nymphs (MZUCR). San Ramón, REBAMB, N 10° 13’ 06.8’’, W -84° 35’ 48.9’’, 876 m a.s.l, 10.X.2010, (B. Pacheco): 5 males, 4 females, 5 nymphs (MZUCR). San Carlos, Crucitas, X 501,010, Y 316,238, 92 m a.s.l., 3.XI.2008, (B. Pacheco): 1 male, 1 female (MZUCR).

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FIGURE 12. Collecting records of Gerrinae within the Costa Rican territory.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Gerridae

Genus

Tachygerris