Brachymetra albinervus (Amyot & Serville, 1843)

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 : 247

Brachymetra albinervus (Amyot & Serville, 1843)

( Figs 58 , 62 )

New records. PANAMA • 3 macropterous males, 7 macropterous females; Colón, Pipeline Road, Seda River ; 9.15329° N, - 79.73663° W; 6 May 2015; A.J.J. Crumière leg.; CEIOC 81263 • 2 macropterous males; Colón, Pipeline Road, Seda River ; 9.15329° N, - 79.73663° W; 7 May 2015; A.J.J. Crumière leg.; CEIOC 81264 .

Remarks. This species is by far the most widely distributed of the genus, ranging from Guatemala ( Drake & Harris 1942) to Paraguay ( Drake & Harris 1930). It has three previous records from Panama ( Allee & Torvik 1927; Shaw 1933) and Chiriquí ( Champion 1898) provinces, and the occurrence in Colón Province is herein reported for the first time.

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.