Trepobates panamensis Drake & Hottes 1952
Description
Trepobates panamensis Drake & Hottes, 1952
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Previously recorded from southwestern Mexico to Ecuador, including San José Province in Costa Rica (Drake & Hottes 1952; Matsuda 1962; Aristizábal 2002; Polhemus & Polhemus 2002; Padilla-Gil & Nieser 2003; Camacho & Molano 2005; Molano et al. 2005, 2008; Molano & Camacho 2006; Valencia et al. 2006; Morales & Molano 2008; Posso & González 2008; Galindo et al. 2009; Morales & Castro 2010; Mondragón & Morales 2013). Specimens examined were found in backwater areas of rivers, puddles close to rivers, lagoons, and temporary pools along roadsides. The species is found in the Pacific Slope, the Central Valley, and the northern lowlands of Costa Rica, from sea level to 1,200 m a.s.l., and is herein recorded for the first time from Alajuela, Guanacaste, and Puntarenas provinces.
Material examined. Alajuela— Rugama Stream pond (“laguito”), Cote Lake Hydropower Project, 680 m a.s.l., 5.V.2006, (M.Springer): 1 female (MZUCR). San Ramón, REBAMB, N 10° 13’ 32.5’’, W -84° 34’ 45.6’’, 904 m a.s.l., 17.X.2009, (B. Pacheco): 2 males, 1 female (MZUCR). La Tigra, Esperanza River, N 10° 19.947’, W -84° 34.682’, 284 m a.s.l., 11.VII.2009, (B. Pacheco): 1 female, 3 nymphs (MZUCR). Chachagua, N 10° 19’ 47.1’’, W -84° 33’ 38.9’’, 259 m a.s.l., (B. Pacheco): 1 male, 2 females, 3 nymphs (MZUCR). San Ramón, UCR, Little Forest Sede de Occidente, X 483,539, Y 230,104, 1074 m a.s.l., XI.2008, (B. Pacheco): 1 male, 2 females (MZUCR). Guanacaste— Stream in the entrance of Cerro Cacao Reserve, 1200 m a.s.l., 4.X.1998, (M. Springer): 1 male, 1 female (MZUCR). Puntarenas— Montezuma waterfall, 0 m a.s.l., IV.1995, (C. Nolting): 1 female (MZUCR). Golfito, (A. Rodríguez): 1 female (MZUCR). San José— Ciudad Colón, Universidad para la Paz Park Lake, 2.IX.2000, 1 male (MZUCR).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Gerridae
- Genus
- Trepobates
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Drake & Hottes
- Species
- panamensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Trepobates panamensis Drake, 1952 sec. Pacheco-Chaves, Cordeiro, Moreira & Springer, 2018
References
- Drake, C. J. & Hottes, F. C. (1952) Genus Trepobates Herrich-Schaeffer (Hemiptera: Gerridae). Great Basin Naturalist, 12, 35 - 38. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 21967
- Matsuda, R. (1962) Study of relative growth in Gerridae. VI. Comparison of two species of Trepobates (Hemiptera: Insecta). University of Kansas Science Bulletin, 43, 113 - 129.
- Aristizabal, H. (2002) Los Hemipteros de la Pelicula Superficial del Agua en Colombia. Parte 1. Gerridae. Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales, Bogot, 239 pp.
- Polhemus, J. T. & Polhemus, D. A. (2002) The Trepobatinae (Gerridae) of New Guinea and surrouding regions, with a review of the World fauna. Part 6. Phylogeny, biogeography, World checklist, bibliography and final taxonomic addenda. Insect Systematics & Evolution, 33, 253 - 290. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 187631202 X 00154
- Padilla-Gil, D. N. & Nieser, N. (2003) Nueva especie de Tachygerris y nuevos registros de colecta de las Gerridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) de Colombia. Actualidades Biologicas, 25, 39 - 49.
- Molano, F. & Camacho, D. L. (2006) Especies de Gerridae (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha) del Departamento del Quindio. In: Agudelo-Henao, C. A. (Ed.), Riqueza Biotica Quindiana. Universidad del Quindio, Armenia, pp. 370 - 376.
- Valencia, M. R. R., Molano, F. & Morales, I. (2006) Contribucion al conocimiento de chinches semiacuaticos (Hemiptera: Gerridae) en ambientes loticos y lenticos del Departamento de Risaralda. Revista de Investigaciones, 16, 37 - 47.
- Morales, I. & Molano, F. (2008) Heteropteros acuaticos del Quindio (Colombia): los infraordenes Gerromorpha y Nepomorpha. Revista Colombiana de Entomologia, 34, 121 - 128.
- Posso, C. E. & Gonzalez, R. O. (2008) Gerridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) del Museo Entomologico de la Universidad del Valle. Revista Colombiana de Entomologia, 34, 230 - 238.
- Galindo, X., Hernandez, C. & Mondragon, S. P. (2009) Riqueza y abundancia de heteropteros acuaticos y semiacuaticos de diferentes cuerpos de agua del Municipio de San Luis de Gaceno, Boyac, Colombia. Burgessia, 1, 48 - 54.
- Morales, I. & Castro, M. I. (2010) Nuevos registros y ampliacion de distribucion geografica para especies de Gerridae (Insecta: Hemiptera) en Colombia. Acta Biologica Colombiana, 15, 271 - 280.
- Mondragon, S. P. & Morales, I. (2013) Chinches semiacuaticas presentes en el Municipio de San Luis de Gaceno, Boyaca, Colombia. Ciencia en Desarrollo, 4, 13 - 18.