Buenoa antigone antigone ( Kirkaldy, 1899 )

Mazzucconi, Silvia Ana, Reyes, Cristina Armúa De & Estévez, Ana Lía, 2022, Aquatic and semiaquatic Heteroptera (Insecta: Hemiptera) from Iberá Natural Reserve (Corrientes Province, Argentina), Zootaxa 5104 (4), pp. 451-505 : 488-489

Buenoa antigone antigone ( Kirkaldy, 1899)

Anisops antigone Kirkaldy, 1899 : Entomologist, 30.

Buenoa antigone: Kirkaldy, 1904 : Wiener Ent. Zeit., 120, 122, 134.

Material examined. Itatí RS: 1 ♀, Estancia El Dorado , pond, 28°45.13’S, 58°7.40’W, 30.iii.2014. Yahaveré RS: 4 ♀, Concepción de Yaguareté Corá, house for researchers, swimming pool, 28°23’25.7”S, 57°53’15.9”W, 8.xi.2015 .

General distribution. Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina ( Moreira et al. 2011b).

Habitat. Buenoa a. antigone has been found at the margins of ponds, lakes, lagoons (exposed to sunlight and with dense floating vegetation), as well as in creeks and slow-moving sections of streams (partly exposed to sunshine, without aquatic vegetation) ( Truxal 1953; Nieser 1970a; Torres et al. 2008; Muñoz Riviaux et al. 2010; Lanigan & Hyslop 2011).

At the INR, only one specimen was collected from the margins of a pond exposed to sunlight and with emergent vegetation, together with B. salutis . Four specimens were also collected in a swimming pool in Concepción de Yaguareté Corá .

Remarks. This is the first record of B. a. antigone from INR. This species was previously recorded from Corrientes Province by López Ruf et al. (2003) and Mazzucconi (2008).