Classification > Superfamily
Gerroidea
> Family
Gerridae
> Subfamily
Gerrinae
> Tribe
Gerrini
> Genus
Limnogonus
Limnogonus ignotus Drake & Harris 1934
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Geographic distribution
Distribution
No economic damages registered
- Argentina
- Buenos Aires
- Chaco
- Corrientes
- Entre Ríos
- Formosa
- Misiones
- Salta
- Santa Fe
- Santiago del Estero
- Tucumán
- Uruguay
Other distribution
Also known from Bolivia, Brazil, British Guiana, Colombia, French Guiana, Paraguay, and Peru (Bachmann 1966, Morrone et al. 2004, Rodrigues et al. 2021).
Inhabiting temporary or semipermanent ponds and pools, and ditches, including very small ones (like footprints of horses), and artificial ones (like swimming pools and livestock drinking-troughs), mainly in plains. A fairly common pioneer species, readily colonizing new rainfed ditches (the apterous morph is extremely rare); not gregarious (Mazzucconi & Bachmann 1995).
- MAZZUCCONI, S.A. & BACHMANN, A.O. 1995. Geographic distribution of the Gerridae in Argentina (Insecta, Heteroptera). Insecta Mundi 9(3-4): 363- 370.
- LOPEZ RUF, M.L., MAZZUCCONI, S.A. & BACHMANN, A.O. 2003. Heteroptera Acuáticos y Semiacuáticos del Parque Nacional Mburucuyá (Provincia de Corrientes, Argentina). Revista de la Sociedad Entomologica Argentina 62 (1-2): 65-71.
- MAZZUCCONI, S.A. & BACHMANN, A.O. 2003. The Veliidae and Gerridae from Uruguay (Hemiptera). Revista de la Sociedad Entomologica Argentina 62(3-4): 89- 90.
- MORRONE, J.J., MAZZUCCONI, S.A. & BACHMANN, A.O. 2004. Distributional patterns of Chacoan water bugs (Heteroptera: Belostomatidae, Corixidae, Micronectidae and Gerridae). Hydrobiologia 523: 159- 173.
- TORRES, P.L.M., MAZZUCCONI, S.A. & MICHAT, M.C. 2007. Los coleópteros y heterópteros acuáticos del Parque Nacional El Palmar (Provincia de Entre Ríos, Argentina): lista faunística, diversidad y distribución. Revista de la Sociedad Entomologica Argentina 66 (3-4): 127-154
- COSCARON, M.C. 2017. A catalogue of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) or true bugs from Argentina. Zootaxa, 4295 (1): 1-432.
- RODRIGUES, J.M.D.S., NERY, L., RODRIGUES, H.D.D. & MOREIRA, F.F.F. 2021. Survey of the semiaquatic bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha) from Alagoas and Sergipe, Northeast Brazil. Zootaxa 4958(1): 103–159.
