Limnocoris acutalis La Rivers, 1974

Rodrigues, Juliana Mourão Dos Santos, Cordeiro, Isabelle Da Rocha Silva, Floriano, Carla Fernanda Burguez, Paiva, Nathália De Oliveira, Magalhães, Oséias Martins, Júnior, Evaldo Alves Joaquim, Martins, Thaynara De Souza, Silva, Rafaella Cardoso Da, Siqueira, Gabriel Vieira, Salles, Frederico Falcão, Viala, Séverine, Khila, Abderrahman & Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, 2023, Descriptions of new species and new records of water bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha & Nepomorpha) from southeastern Brazil, Zootaxa 5393 (1), pp. 1-86 : 79-80

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5393.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10438069

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scientific name

Limnocoris acutalis La Rivers, 1974
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Fig. 57A, D View FIGURE 57

Diagnosis. Body length 7.0– 8.2 mm; propleuron with pubescent area posteriorly projected over lateral margin, posterior margin slightly concave medially; mesosternum without longitudinal row of golden setae next to mesosternal carina; mesosternal carina: anterior projection poorly developed, region between anterior projection and fossa distinctly concave, fossa poorly developed, open and shallow, rounded, with short golden setae; metasternal carina: poorly developed, without fossa; embolium triangular; lateral margins of abdominal segments weakly serrated, posterolateral angles without spines ( Rodrigues 2018).

Comment. This species was described and known only from “ Brazil ”, until Sites (2022) recorded material from MG.

New records. BRAZIL — Rio de Janeiro • Cantagalo, stream on road to Duas Barras ; −21.9720, −42.3931; 01. VIII.2016; FFF Moreira, IRS Cordeiro, FS Motta, OM Magalhães leg.; 1 male, CEIOC 36519 GoogleMaps .

Distribution in Brazil. MG ( Sites 2022), RJ*.

Rodrigues, H. D. D. (2018) Revisao taxonomica e analise filogenetica da subfamilia Limnocorinae (Heteroptera: Nepomorpha: Naucoridae). Ph. D. Thesis, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, xv + 341 pp.

Sites, R. W. (2022) Phylogeny and revised classification of the saucer bugs (Hemiptera: Nepomorpha: Naucoridae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 195, 1245 - 1286. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / zoolinnean / zlab 105

Gallery Image

FIGURE 57. Collected specimens (A–C), and distribution in southeastern Brazil and adjacent areas (D, E). Nepomorpha from Rio de Janeiro state. A–B. Naucoridae, Limnocoris. A. Limnocoris acutalis, male from Cantagalo (−21.9720, −42.3931). B. Limnocoris pusillus, male from São Fidélis (−21.6106, −41.8078). C. Notonectidae, Martarega bentoi, male from Itaocara (−21.6431, −42.0274). D. Limnocoris acutalis (red) and Limnocoris pusillus (yellow). E. Martarega bentoi. Stars indicate new records; circles indicate previous records. Scale bars: 2 mm.

OM

Otago Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Naucoridae

SubFamily

Limnocorinae

Genus

Limnocoris