Nerthra raptoria ( Fabricius, 1803 )

Nieser, Nico, Chen, Ping-ping & Caspers, Max, 2024, Taxonomic notes on toad bug genus Nerthra (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gelastocoridae) with description of a new species from Bonaire and Curaçao, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 64 (1), pp. 33-46 : 36

Nerthra raptoria ( Fabricius, 1803)

( Figs 18–23 )

Naucoris raptoria Fabricius, 1803: 111 (original description).

Nerthra raptoria : TODD (1955): 366 (definition, redescription, distribution); NIESER (1975): 42 (redescription, records for Suriname, distribution).

Material examined. SURINAME: road to Matta, km 4‒5, 5°27′N, 55°15′W, mudflat with some ponds, 3.x.1969, leg.N. Nieser,13; Paramaribo, Fernandesweg at Polderweg naar Zee, 5°53′N, 55°14′W, 10.x.1969, leg. N. Nieser, 1 ♀ ( NCTN); Tijgerkreek, Dirkshoop, 26.vii.1978, from cow dung, leg.A. van Assen, 2 33 ( RMNH).

Distribution. A common and widespread species from Mexico through Central America, and South America east through the Andes to northern Argentina. For more detailed data on distribution and synonymy see TODD (1955) and NIESER (1975). We provide five photographs ( Figs 19–23 ) to support identification to species level.

Comparative notes. See under N. buenoi .

Figures

Figs 15–18. Nerthra spp., apex of paramere, ventral view: 15 – N. americana (Montandon, 1905); 16 – N. buenoi Todd, 1955; 17 – N. occidua Todd, 1959; 18 – N. raptoria (Fabricius, 1803).

Figs 19–23. Nerthra raptoria (Fabricius, 1803): 19–21 – female: 19 – habitus (dorsal view), 20 – habitus (ventral view); 21 – fore legs (ventral view); 22–23 – male, paramere (22 – ventral view; 23 – apex, dorsal view).