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Nepoidea
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Belostomatidae
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Belostomatinae
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Belostoma
Belostoma plebejum (Stål 1860)
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Geographic distribution
Distribution
No economic damages registered
- Argentina
- Buenos Aires
- Corrientes
- Entre Ríos
- Misiones
- Tucumán
- Uruguay
Other distribution
Also known from Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela (Schnack 1976, Ribeiro 2007, Moreira et al. 2011, Ribeiro & Ferrari 2023).
- Zaitha plebeja Stal 1860; Mayr 1863, 1871; Berg 1879
- Zaitha maculosa Dufour 1863
- Zaitha limbata Dufour 1863
- Zaitha adusta Dufour 1863
- Zaitha difficilis Dufour 1863
- Belostoma amici: Piza-Jr., 1975 [in part]
This species prefers still, clear waters, with abundant submerged and floating vegetation (Bachmann 1962)
- RUFFINELLI A. & PIRÁN A.A. 1959. Hemípteros heterópteros del Uruguay. Boletín de la Facultad de Agronomía, Montevideo 51: 1–60.
- BACHMANN, A.O. 1962. Apuntes para una hidrobiologia argentina, IV. Los Hemiptera Cryptocerata del Delta del Parana (Insecta). Revista de la Sociedad Entomologica Argentina 23: 24-25.
- SCHNACK, J.A. 1976. Insecta, Hemiptera, Belostomatidae. vol. 35, fasciculo 1. En: Ringuelet, R.A. (dir.) Fauna de Agua Dulce de la República Argentina. CONICET
- RIBEIRO, J.R.I. 2007. A review of the species of Belostoma Latreille, 1807 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Belostomatidae) from the four southeastern Brazilian states. Zootaxa 1477: 1–70.
- MAZZUCCONI, S.A., LOPEZ RUF, M.S. & BACHMANN, A.O. 2009. Gerromorpha y Nepomorpha (Insecta: Heteroptera) del Parque Provincial Salto Encantado del Valle del Cuñá Pirú, Provincia de Misiones, Argentina. Lundiana 9(1): 57- 66.
- MOREIRA, F.F.F., BARBOSA, J.F., RIBEIRO, J.R.I. & ALECRIM, V.P. 2011. Checklist and distribution of semiaquatic and aquatic Heteroptera (Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha) occurring in Brazil. Zootaxa, 2958 (1), 1–74.
- RIBEIRO, J.R.I. & FERRARI, A. 2023. Phylogenetic analysis of the Belostoma plebejum group sensu Nieser (Insecta, Hemiptera, Belostomatidae): the effect of adding continuous characters on its accuracy. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 81: 1–34.
