Description of a new species and new records of Gerromorpha (Insecta: Hemiptera Heteroptera) from Panama and Colombia
Author
Rodrigues, Juliana Mourão Dos Santos
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Laboratório de Biodiversidade Entomológica, Avenida Brasil 4365, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Author
Crumière, Antonin Jean Johan
0000-0003-2214-2993
Current address: Section for Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. antonin. crumiere @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2214 - 2993 & Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5242, 46 allée d’Italie, F- 69364, Lyon, France.
antonin.crumiere@gmail.com
Author
Mondragón-F, Silvia Patricia
0000-0001-6730-1535
Grupo de Investigación Sistemática Biológica, Laboratorio de Entomología, Museo de Historia Natural “ Luis Gonzalo Andrade ”, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia. & patriciamondragon 18 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6730 - 1535
patriciamondragon18@gmail.com
Author
Morales, Irina
0000-0003-2456-5674
Grupo de Investigación Sistemática Biológica, Laboratorio de Entomología, Museo de Historia Natural “ Luis Gonzalo Andrade ”, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia. & irina. morales @ uptc. edu. co; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2456 - 5674
irina.morales@uptc.edu.co
Author
Khila, Abderrahman
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5242, 46 allée d’Italie, F- 69364, Lyon, France.
Author
Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo
0000-0002-6692-0323
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Laboratório de Biodiversidade Entomológica, Avenida Brasil 4365, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. & ppmeiameiameia @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6692 - 0323
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-04-14
4958
1
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4958.1.12
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Rhagovelia elegans
Uhler, 1894
(
Figs 28–29
,
35
)
New records.
PANAMA
• 3 apterous males, 8 macropterous males, 8 macropterous females;
Colón
,
Gamboa
;
9.12117° N
, -
79.70480° W
;
8 May 2015
;
A.J.J. Crumière
leg.;
CEIOC 79929
•
2 macropterous males;
Colón
, puddle on
Pipeline Road
;
9.11917° N
, -
79.70609° W
;
10 May 2015
;
A.J.J. Crumière
leg.;
CEIOC 79934
•
2 apterous males, 2 macropterous females;
Colón
,
Pipeline Road
,
Seda River
;
9.15329° N
, -
79.73663° W
;
6 May 2015
;
A.J.J. Crumière
leg.;
CEIOC 79932
•
1 macropterous male, 1 macropterous female;
Panama
,
Plantation Road
, dry creek, puddle;
9.08556° N
, -
79.65841° W
;
17 May 2015
;
A.J.J. Crumière
leg.;
CEIOC 79931
.
Remarks.
This species occurs from Hispaniola Island to
Trinidad & Tobago
in the Antilles, and from
Costa Rica
to southeastern
Brazil
(
Moreira
et al.
2016
). There are several previous records from
Panama
(
Champion 1898
; Allee & Trovik 1927;
Gould 1931
;
Drake 1948
;
Bacon 1956
;
Polhemus 1997
), including the provinces of
Bocas del Toro
,
Panama
, and
Coclé
. The records from
Colón
above are the first from this province. The puddle on the muddy Pipeline Road is quite unstable and the specimens likely moved to this habitat from the surrounding creeks. The specimens from Gamboa were collected in small water pools remaining from a dry creek located under canopy. The water level was very low and it was the only species of
Gerromorpha
present.