Aquarius chilensis ( Berg, 1881 )

Damgaard, Jakob & Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, 2021, Water bugs (Hemipera: Heteroptera: Nepomorpha & Gerromorpha) of Chile phylogenetic and biogeographic considerations, and a catalog of the fauna, Zootaxa 4958 (1), pp. 45-71 : 53

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Aquarius chilensis ( Berg, 1881) View in CoL

Limnotrechus chilensis Berg, 1881: 263 .—HT: #, Chile, “Diguillin” [Diguillín]; lost.

Gerris chilensis ( Berg, 1881) ; Lethierry & Severin (1896: 60).

Hydrometra chilensis ( Berg, 1881) ; Reed (1901: 68).

Gerris (Aquarius) chilensis ( Berg, 1881) ; Matsuda (1960: 175).

Aquarius chilensis ( Berg, 1881) View in CoL ; Andersen (1990: 71).

Distribution. Chile (Bernardo O’Higgins, Biobío, Coquimbo, Maule, Santiago, Valparaíso) ( Berg 1881, Porter 1923, Drake & Harris 1933, Porter 1938, Kuitert 1942, Andersen 1990); Peru ( Andersen 1990).

Notes. Berg (1881) mentioned that the type of Limnotrechus chilensis , from Diguillín, Chile, was deposited in the Gabinete de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires, which was the first sector of the Universidad de Buenos Aires to harbor natural collections, such as plants, animals, and rocks. Later, the Argentinian government created the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires (now the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”, MACN), which was directed by Berg from 1892 to 1902 ( Gallardo 1902). Andersen (1990) and Damgaard et al. (2014) assumed that the type of L. chilensis was deposited in the MACN, but it is not mentioned in Bachmann’s (1999) or Bachmann’s (2012) lists of Heteroptera types deposited in this museum. It is also not in the Museo de La Plata (MLP) ( Coscarón et al. 2015), where many of Berg’s types are now deposited, or in the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet (NHRS) ( Gustafsson 2006), where some of his material was sent to. We contacted the staffs of the MACN, the MLP, the Universidad de Buenos Aires, the Universidad de Magallanes, and the NHRS, but they could not locate the type of L. chilensis in any of these institutions nor in any other Argentinian or Chilean collection. Therefore, we consider that this specimen was lost. Villagra et al. (2001) provided important observations about the sexual dimorphism, behavior and ecology of this species.

References

Andersen, N. M. (1990) Phylogeny and taxonomy of water striders, genus Aquarius Schellenberg (Insecta, Hemiptera, Gerridae), with a new species from Australia. Steenstrupia, 16 (4), 37 - 81.

Bachmann, A. O. (1999) Catalogo de los tipos de Heteroptera (Insecta) conservados en el Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Nueva Serie, 1, 191 - 230. https: // doi. org / 10.22179 / REVMACN. 1.135

Bachmann, A. O. (2012) A catalog of the types of Heteroptera (Insecta) deposited in the Museo Argentino de Ciencias naturales, Buenos Aires 2. Addenda et corrigenda. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Nueva Serie, 14, 83 - 96. https: // doi. org / 10.22179 / REVMACN. 14.210

Berg, C. (1881) Sinonimia y descripcion de algunos hemipteros de Chile, del Brasil y de Bolivia. Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina, 12, 259 - 272.

Coscaron, M. C., Basset, C. & Lopez, N. (2015) Types of true bugs (Insecta, Hemiptera, Heteroptera) deposited in the Museo de La Plata, Argentina. Zootaxa, 3977 (1), 1 - 101. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3977.1.1

Damgaard, J., Moreira, F. F. F., Weir, T. A. & Zettel, H. (2014) Molecular phylogeny of the pond skaters (Gerrinae), discussion of the fossil record and a checklist of species assigned to the subfamily (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerridae). Insect Systematics & Evolution, 45, 251 - 281. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 1876312 X- 44042105

Drake, C. J. & Harris, H. M. (1933) Some miscellaneous Gerridae in the collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (Hemiptera). Psyche, 39, 109 - 112. https: // doi. org / 10.1155 / 1932 / 24919

Gallardo, A. (1902) El Doctor Carlos Berg, apuntes biograficos. Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina, 53, 97 - 114.

Gustafsson, B. (2006) A checklist of the Heteroptera in the Swedish Museum of Natural History. Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm. Available from: http: // www 2. nrm. se / en / het _ nrm / heteroptera. html (accessed 4 May 2020)

Kuitert, L. C. (1942) Gerrinae in the University of Kansas collections. University of Kansas Science Bulletin, 28, 113 - 143.

Matsuda, R. (1960) Morphology, evolution and a classification of the Gerridae (Hemiptera - Heteroptera). University of Kansas Science Bulletin, 41, 25 - 632. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 15602

Porter, C. E. (1923) Sobre el Gerris chilensis (Berg). Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, 27, 38.

Porter, C. E. (1938) Nota acerca de un hemiptero acuatico. Revista Chilena de Entomologia, 43, 331.

Villagra, C. A., Villalobos, C. A., Tapia, D. H. & Rodriguez-Auad, K. (2001) Sexual dimorphism and behavior in the water strider Gerris chilensis (Berg) (Hemiptera: Gerridae). Revista Chilena de Entomologia, 28, 87 - 93.