Neogerris lubricus (White, 1879)

Pacheco-Chaves, Bernald, Cordeiro, Isabelle Da Rocha Silva, Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo & Springer, Monika, 2018, The water striders (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerridae) of Costa Rica: new species, checklist, and new records, Zootaxa 4471 (3), pp. 493-522 : 507

Neogerris lubricus (White, 1879)

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This is the most commonly found species of the genus in the Neotropics, with previous records from Trinidad & Tobago and Panama, throughout South America southward to Argentina ( White 1879b; Drake & Harris 1935; Kuitert 1942; Matsuda 1961a; Bachmann 1962; Nieser 1970, 1994; Roback & Nieser 1974; Crespo 1984; Mazzucconi & Bachmann 1993, 1995; Nieser & Melo 1997; Aristizábal 2002; Estévez et al. 2003; López-Ruf et al. 2003; Melo & Nieser 2004; Molano et al. 2008; Morales et al. 2008; Cabette et al. 2010; Fernandes & Wanzeler 2010; Moreira et al. 2011a, b; Peralta-Argomeda 2011; Moreira & Campos 2012; Rodrigues et al. 2012; Castanhole et al. 2013; Dias-Silva et al. 2013; Floriano et al. 2013; Damgaard et al. 2014; Cordeiro & Moreira 2015; Cunha et al. 2015; Takiya et al. 2016; Cunha & Juen 2017; da Motta et al. 2018). The genus is herein recorded for the first time from Costa Rica based on a male collected in a lagoon in the northern area of the Atlantic Slope, at less than 50 m a.s.l.

Material examined. Alajuela— Pocosol , Santa Rosa, San Rafael, X 503,200, Y 481,050, < 50 m a.s.l., 28.VI.2009, ( P. Gutiérrez): 1 male ( MZUCR).

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FIGURE 12. Collecting records of Gerrinae within the Costa Rican territory.