Classification > Superfamily
Nepoidea
> Family
Belostomatidae
> Subfamily
Lethocerinae
> Genus
Lethocerus
Lethocerus annulipes (Herrich-Schaeffer 1845)
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Geographic distribution
Distribution
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- Argentina
- Buenos Aires
- Catamarca
- Chaco
- Córdoba
- Corrientes
- Entre Ríos
- Formosa
- La Rioja
- Misiones
- Salta
- Santa Fe
- Santiago del Estero
- Tucumán
- Uruguay
Other distribution
Also known from Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and USA (Schnack 1976; Perez Goodwyn 2006).
- Belostoma annulipes Herrich-Schaeffer 1846
- Belostoma ruficeps Dufour 1863
- Belostoma signoreti Dufour 1863
- Belostoma distinctum Dufour 1863
- Belostoma mayri Montandon 1896
This species prefers still and cloudy waters with more or less abundant vegetation, particularly the reed beds of the greater water courses (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
- PEREZ GOODWYN, P.J. 2006. Taxonomic revision of the subfamily Lethocerinae Lauck & Menke (Heteroptera: Belostomatidae). Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde, 695(71): 71
- 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.
- MELO, M.C., CASTRO-HUERTAS, V., MINGHETTI, E., OLIVERA, L., AMARU CASTELO, J. & DELLAPÉ, P.M. 2024. Diversity of True Bugs from the Rio Pilcomayo National Park, Formosa Province, Argentina. J. Int. Heteropterists’ Soc. 1 (4): 248–280. https://doi.org/10.11646/jihs.1.4.6
