Semiaquatic bugs (Insecta, Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Gerromorpha) from Parque Natural Municipal das Andorinhas, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais state, Brazil

Gustavo Lisboa Vieira Machado; Oséias Martins Magalhães; Marco Antonio Alves Carneiro; Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo Moreira

doi:10.15560/19.2.235

Check List 19(2): 235-246, doi: 10.15560/19.2.235

Semiaquatic bugs (Insecta, Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Gerromorpha) from Parque Natural Municipal das Andorinhas, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais state, Brazil

Gustavo Lisboa Vieira Machado^‡, Oséias Martins Magalhães^§, Marco Antonio Alves Carneiro^‡, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo Moreira^§

‡ Laboratório de Entomologia Ecológica, Departamento de Biodiversidade, Evolução e Meio Ambiente, Instituto de Ciências Exatas e Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, Brazil§ Laboratório de Biodiversidade Entomológica, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Corresponding author: Gustavo Lisboa Vieira Machado ( gustavo.lisboa@aluno.ufop.edu.br )

Academic editor: Julianna Freires Barbosa

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Citation: Machado GLV, Magalhães OM, Carneiro MAA, Moreira FFF (2023) Semiaquatic bugs (Insecta, Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Gerromorpha) from Parque Natural Municipal das Andorinhas, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Check List 19(2): 235-246. https://doi.org/10.15560/19.2.235

Abstract

We present a survey of the semiaquatic bugs (Insecta, Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Gerromorpha) from Parque Natural Municipal das Andorinhas, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais State, southeastern Brazil. Thirteen species are recorded from the area based on regular collection events, namely Brachymetra albinervus (Amyot & Serville, 1843); Cylindrostethus palmaris Drake & Harris, 1934; Halobatopsis delectus Drake & Harris, 1941; Ha. platensis (Berg, 1879); Metrobates plaumanni genikos Nieser, 1993; Neogerris kontos Nieser, 1994 (Gerridae); Hydrometra fruhstorferi Hungerford & Evans, 1934 (Hydrometridae); Platyvelia brachialis (Stål, 1860); Rhagovelia macta Drake & Carvalho, 1955; R. robusta Gould, 1931; R. sbolos Nieser & Melo, 1997; R. triangula Drake, 1953; and R. trianguloides Nieser & Melo, 1997 (Veliidae).

Keywords

Aquatic insects, faunistics, Neotropical Region, South America