Check List 17(5): 1323-1343, doi: 10.15560/17.5.1323

Semiaquatic bugs (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Gerromorpha) from Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil

Juliana Mourão dos Santos Rodrigues^‡, Oséias Martins Magalhães^‡, Evaldo Alves Joaquim Júnior^‡, José Ricardo Inacio Ribeiro^§, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo Moreira^‡

‡ Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Laboratório de Biodiversidade Entomológica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil§ Universidade Federal do Pampa, Campus São Gabriel, Laboratório de Estudos da Biodiversidade do Pampa, São Gabriel, Brazil

Corresponding author: Juliana Mourão dos Santos Rodrigues ( julianamourao@yahoo.com.br )

Academic editor: Julianna Freires Barbosa

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Citation: Rodrigues JMS, Magalhães OM, Joaquim Júnior EA, Ribeiro JRI, Moreira FFF (2021) Semiaquatic bugs (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Gerromorpha) from Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil. Check List 17(5): 1323-1343. https://doi.org/10.15560/17.5.1323

Abstract

Rio Grande do Sul (RS) is the southernmost state in Brazil and includes areas within the Pampa and Atlantic Forest biomes. The semiaquatic bugs (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Gerromorpha) from RS are poorly known, with only 14 previously recorded species. We carried out two expeditions in this state, in 2002 and 2019, across 19 municipalities. Here, we provide new records for 19 species, of which 13 are recorded for the first time from the state, five have their distributions expanded, and one is recorded again from a same locality previously reported in the literature. Furthermore, 13 species were collected for the first time in the Pampa biome and one in the Atlantic Forest.

Keywords

Aquatic insects, Atlantic Forest, geographic distribution, Neotropical region, Pampa