Check List 8(2): 307-309, doi: 10.15560/8.2.307
New distributional records of Gerromorpha Popov, 1971 (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Cuba
expand article infoSenén Muñoz Riviaux, Carlos Naranjo López§, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo Moreira|
‡ Centro de Aplicaciones Teconológicas para el Desarrollo Sostenible, Departamento de Gestión Ambiental, Cuba§ Museo de Historia Natural Tomás Romey, Cuba| Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Abstract
Distributional records of fourteen species of Gerromorpha, belonging to the families Gerridae, Hebridae, Hydrometridae, Mesoveliidae, and Veliidae, are reported from Cuba. The following species are recorded for the first time from eastern Cuba: Rheumatobates clanis Drake and Harris, 1932, R. meinerti Schroeder, 1931, Trepobates pictus (Herrich- Schäffer, 1848) (Gerridae), Hydrometra australis Say, 1832 (Hydrometridae), and Platyvelia brachialis (Stål, 1860) (Veliidae).
Keywords
Insecta; Hemiptera; Heteroptera; new records; Cuba