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Neogerris
Neogerris lubricus (White 1879)
Limnogonus lubricus Syntype deposited at Perth Museum, dorsal
Geographic distribution
Distribution
No economic damages registered
- Argentina
- Córdoba
- Corrientes
- Formosa
- Misiones
- Salta
Other distribution
Also known from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, and Trinidad & Tobago (Bachmann 1966, Morrone et al. 2004, Cordeiro & Moreira 2015).
- Limnogonus lubricus White 1879
Inhabiting semipermanent ponds in plains and low hilly areas. Fairly common in the Chacoan provinces; not distinctly gregarious. Both the apterous and the macropterous morphs are common (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. 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.
- 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
