Abstract

PADILLA-GIL, Dora Nancy. New records of aquatic Heteroptera (Hemiptera) from the Andean foothills of the Amazonia (Putumayo, Colombia). Rev. Colomb. Entomol. [online]. 2014, vol.40, n.2, pp.230-234. ISSN 0120-0488.

Four new records of species of aquatic heteropterous are added to the entomofauna of Colombia and, distributional limits are extended for all species collected. New data is reported for the distribution of 18 species, of which two belong to the infraorder Nepomorpha: Corixidae: Heterocorixa and Notonectidae: Martarega; 16 belong to Gerromorpha: of which 12 belong to the family Gerridae: Metrobates, Tachygerris, Limnogonus (two species), Brachymetra, Neogerris, Potamobates, Trepobates (three species), Telmatometra, Rheumatobates; three belong to the family Veliidae: Rhagovelia, Microvelia (two species), and one to Mesoveliidae: Mesoveli.

Keywords : Aquatic insects; Corixidae; Notonectidae; Gerridae; Veliidae.

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