Hydrometra caraiba Guérin-Méneville, 1857

Riviaux, Senén Muñoz, Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo & López, Carlos Naranjo, 2010, Checklist, distribution, and habitat of the semiaquatic and aquatic bugs from Cuba (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Dipsocoromorpha, Leptopodomorpha, Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha), Zootaxa 2562, pp. 1-23 : 7

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scientific name	Hydrometra caraiba Guérin-Méneville, 1857
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Geographical distribution: endemic to the Neotropical region, occurring from Mexico to Peru.

Material from Cuba: Pinar del Río, Carabela Grande, no date or collector, 1 ɗ ( ASLV) ( Torre-Bueno 1926). Cienfuegos, Soledad, 1925, J. G. Myers leg., some specimens (probably KU) ( Hungerford and Evans 1934). Cienfuegos, Jardín Botánico de Soledad, march, no collector (ESI) ( Alayo 1967, 1974). Holguín, San Fernando, Río Gibara , 07.II.2002, Hernández & Bauta leg., 1 specimen ( NHMC). Cuatro Caminos, 18.VI.2001, Hernández & Bauta leg., 1 specimen ( NHMC) ( Hernández and Bauta 2003).

Habitat: common species in Cuba, found on stream pools and ponds up to 200 m above sea-level.

References

Alayo, P. D. (1967) Catalogo de la fauna de Cuba. XVI. Los hemipteros acuaticos de Cuba. Trabajos de Divulgacion (Museo Felipe Poey, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba), 38, 1 - 68.

Alayo, P. D. (1974) Los hemipteros acuaticos de Cuba. Torreia (Nueva Serie), 36, 9 - 64.

Guerin-Meneville, F. E. (1857) Ordre des Hemipteres, Latr. Premiere Section. Heteropteres Latr. In: de la Sagra, R. (ed), Histoire Physique, Politique et Naturelle de l'Ile de Cuba. Arthur Bertrand, Paris, pp. 359 - 424.

Hernandez, D. & Bauta, Y. (2003) Caracterizacion de la macrofauna dulceacuicola de los rios Gibara y Cacoyuguin (Holguin). Unpublished dissertation, Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba.

Hungerford, H. B. & Evans, N. E. (1934) The Hydrometridae of the Hungarian National Museum and other studies on the family (Hemiptera). Annales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, 28, 32 - 112.

Torre-Bueno, J. R. de la (1926) The family Hydrometridae in the Western Hemisphere. Entomologica Americana (New Series), 2, 83 - 128.