Potamobates anchicaya Polhemus & Polhemus, 1995

Rodrigues, Juliana Mourão Dos Santos, Crumière, Antonin Jean Johan, Mondragón-F, Silvia Patricia, Morales, Irina, Khila, Abderrahman & Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, 2021, Description of a new species and new records of Gerromorpha (Insecta: Hemiptera Heteroptera) from Panama and Colombia, Zootaxa 4958 (1), pp. 226-251 : 245

Potamobates anchicaya Polhemus & Polhemus, 1995

( Figs 57 , 62 )

New records. PANAMA • 4 apterous males, 3 apterous females; Colón, Pipeline Road, Seda River ; 9.15329° N, - 79.73663° W; 6 May 2015; A.J.J. Crumière leg.; CEIOC 81265 • 2 macropterous males; Colón, PR, Folijes River ; 9.15244° N, - 79.73739° W / 9.15282° N, -79.73351° W; 7 May 2015; A.J.J. Crumière leg.; CEIOC 81266 .

Remarks. Potamobates anchicaya is distributed from Panama to northern Ecuador ( Buzzetti 2006). It is apparently quite common near our sampling stations in Colón and was also collected in Panama and Kuna Yala provinces ( Polhemus & Polhemus 1995).

Figures

FIGURES 54–60. Habitus, dorsal view. 54, Metrobates laudatus Drake & Harris, 1937. 55–56, Telmatometra ujhelyii Esaki, 1926. 55, Apterous. 56, Macropterous. 57, Potamobates anchicaya Polhemus & Polhemus, 1995. 58, Brachymetra albinervus (Amyot & Serville, 1843). 59, Limnogonus hyalinus (Fabricius, 1803). 60, Tachygerris opacus (Champion, 1898). Scale bars: 2.0 mm.

FIGURES 61–62. Distribution of new records from Panamá. 61, Metrobates laudatus Drake & Harris, 1937 in yellow circle; Telmatometra ujhelyii Esaki, 1926 in blue triangle. 62, Potamobates anchicaya Polhemus & Polhemus, 1995 in red circle; Brachymetra albinervus (Amyot & Serville, 1843) in yellow triangle; Limnogonus hyalinus (Fabricius, 1803) in blue circle; Tachygerris opacus (Champion, 1898) in green asterisk.