Classification > Superfamily
Gerroidea
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Gerridae
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Gerrinae
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Gerrini
> Genus
Limnogonus
Limnogonus profugus Drake & Harris 1930
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Geographic distribution
Distribution
No economic damages registered
- Argentina
- Misiones
Other distribution
Also known from Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela (Bachmann 1966, Mazzucconi & Bachmann 1993, Morrone et al. 2004, Cordeiro & Moreira 2015).
Inhabiting rivulets in densely forested hilly areas. A rare, probably not gregarious species (Mazzucconi & Bachmann 1995).
- BACHMANN, A.O. 1966. Catalogo sistemático y clave para la determinación de las subfamilias, géneros y especies de las Gerridae de la República Argentina (Insecta, Hemiptera). Physis, 26 (71): 207-218.
- MAZZUCCONI, S.A. & BACHMANN, A.O. 1993. Familia Gerridae (Heteroptera): estudio comparativo de las alas de las especies argentinas, chilenas y uruguayas. Revista de la Sociedad Entomologica Argentina 52(1-4): 87- 99.
- MAZZUCCONI, S.A. & BACHMANN, A.O. 1995. Geographic distribution of the Gerridae in Argentina (Insecta, Heteroptera). Insecta Mundi 9(3-4): 363- 370.
- 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.
- CORDEIRO, I.R.S. & MOREIRA, F.F.F. 2015. New distributional data on aquatic and semiaquatic bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha & Nepomorpha) from South America. Biodiversity Data Journal 3: e4913
