The small species of Belostoma (Heteroptera: Belostomatidae): Revision of plebejum group

Nieser gathered the water bug species included by Lauck in the groups Belostoma pygmeum and Belostoma plebejum in a single group, Belostoma plebejum. We follow this criterion and use the terminology used by Estévez and Polhemus for species descriptions. The Belostoma plebejum group includes seven sm...

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Autores: Lía Estévez, Ana, T. Polhemus, John
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2007
País:Costa Rica
Recursos:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/6065
Acesso em linha:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/6065
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Neotropical
chinche acuática
taxonomía
Belostoma
especies pequeñas
grupo plebejum
taxonomy
small species
plebejum group
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Resumo:Nieser gathered the water bug species included by Lauck in the groups Belostoma pygmeum and Belostoma plebejum in a single group, Belostoma plebejum. We follow this criterion and use the terminology used by Estévez and Polhemus for species descriptions. The Belostoma plebejum group includes seven small species with the ventral diverticulum of male genitalia recurved ventrad: Belostoma lariversi De Carlo, 1969; B. micantulum (Stål, 1858); B. plebejum (Stål, 1858); B. pygmeum (Dufour, 1863); B. minusculum (Uhler, 1884). B. parvum sp. nov. from Venezuela, Colombia, Guyana, Suriname and Brazil, and B. nicaeum sp. nov. from Manaus, Brazil. The two new species are described and illustrated, and new synonymies are proposed.