Lethocerus delpontei De Carlo 1930
Creators: name: Franco, Cleilton Lima
name: Stefanello, Fabiano
name: Azevêdo, Carlos Augusto Silva de
name: Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Belostomatidae
Lethocerus
Lethocerus delpontei

description: Lethocerus delpontei De Carlo, 1930
Figs 15, 45
Diagnosis
Eyes with mesal margins parallel, posterior margin oblique; interoculus slightly carinated; prosternal keel rounded at apex (Perez-Goodwyn 2006: fig. 37); ventromesal projection of hind tibia rounded (Perez-Goodwyn 2006: fig. 3); hind tibia as wide as hind femur; tarsomere II of hindleg much longer than III (Perez-Goodwyn 2006).
Material examined
BRAZIL – Maranhão • 1 ♀; Bom Jardim municipality, Reserva Biologica do Gurupi, REBIO; [3°32′41.0″ S, 45°36′35.1″ W]; 1–5 Jan. 2011; M.M. Abreu and A.A. Santos leg. [00010]; C.L. Franco det. 2021; CZMA • 1 ♂; Caxias municipality, Reserva Ecologica do Inhamum; [4°53′56″ S, 43°26′10″ W]; 1–3 Sep. 2005; F. Limeira-de-Oliveira et al. leg. [00008]; C.L. Franco det. 2021; CZMA • 1 ♂; C.N. [Centro Novo do Maranhão] municipality, Reserva Biologica do Gurupi, REBIO; 3°14′05″ S, 46°41′03″ W; 7–15 Jan. 2011; F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, M.M. Abreu and E.A. Barbosa leg. [00096]; C.L. Franco det. 2021; CZMA • 2 ♀♀; same data as for preceding; F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, M.M. Abreu and E.A. Barbosa leg. [00011, 00012]; CZMA. • 1 ♂; C.N. [Centro Novo do Maranhão] municipality, Reserva Biologica do Gurupi, REBIO; 3°14′05″ S, 46°41′03″ W; 7–15 Jan. 2011; F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, M.M. Abreus and E.A. Barbosa leg. [00005]; C.L. Franco det. 2021; CZMA • 1 ♂; C.N. [Centro Novo do Maranhão] municipality, Reserva Biologica do Gurupi, REBIO; 3°14′05″ S, 46°41′83″ W; 1–6 Mar. 2011; F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, M.M. Abreu and J.A. Silva leg. [00003]; C.L. Franco det. 2021; CZMA • 1 ♀; same data as for preceding; F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, M.M. Abreu and J.A. Silva leg. [00002]; CZMA. • 3 ♂♂; C.N. [Centro Novo do Maranhão] municipality, Reserva Biologica do Gurupi, REBIO; 3°14′05″ S, 46°41′03″ W; 1–6 Mar. 2011; F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, M.M. Abreu and E.A. Barbosa leg. [00013, 00015, 00023]; C.L. Franco det. 2021; CZMA • 4 ♀♀; same data as for preceding; F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, M.M. Abreu and E.A. Barbosa leg. [00013, 00016, 00017, 00024]; CZMA. • 3 ♂♂; C.N. [Centro Novo do Maranhão] municipality, Reserva Biologica do Gurupi, REBIO; 3°14′05″ S, 46°41′03″ W; 3–7 May 2011; M.M. Abreu and J.A. Silva leg. [00019, 00027, 00095]; C.L. Franco det. 2021; CZMA • 6 ♀♀; same data as for preceding; M.M. Abreu and J.A. Silva leg. [00004, 00005, 00009, 00014, 00020, 00021]; CZMA. • 1 ♀; C.N. [Centro Novo do Maranhão] municipality, Reserva Biologica do Gurupi, REBIO; 3°14′05″ S, 46°41′03″ W; 1–5 Jul. 2011; M.M. Abreu and J.A. Silva leg. [00025]; C.L. Franco det. 2021; CZMA • 1 ♂; F.[ortaleza dos] Nogueiras municipality, Santa Maria Farm, E. Experimental Agroserra; [6°57′54.4″ S, 46°09′58.9″ W]; 7–15 May 2010; C.S. Nunes and E. Rodrigues-da-Silva leg. [00022]; C.L. Franco det. 2021; CZMA • 1 ♂; Mirador [sic, Formosa da Serra Negra] municipality, Parque Estadual do Mirador, Base da geraldina; 6°37′25″ S, 45°52′08″ W; 30 Jun.–6 Jul. 2011; F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, T.T. Silva and A.A. Santos leg. [00029]; C.L. Franco det. 2021; CZMA • 1 ♂; Mirador [sic, Formosa da Serra Negra] municipality, Parque Estadual do Mirador; 6°37′25″ S, 45°52′08″ W; 12–20 Sep. 2012; F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, L.S. Santos and C.F. Barros leg. [00030]; C.L. Franco det. 2021; CZMA • 1 ♀; same data as for preceding; F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, L.S. Santos and C.F. Barros leg. [00031]; CZMA.
Distribution
ARGENTINA (De Carlo 1930); BOLIVIA (Perez-Goodwyn 2006); BRAZIL (Mayr 1866, 1871; Perez-Goodwyn 2006): Amazonas (Almeida et al. 2019), Bahia (Perez-Goodwyn 2006), Espírito Santo (Cummings 1933; Bastos et al. 1994), Goiás (Menke & Lauck 1962; Batista et al. 2013), Mato Grosso (Heckman 1998), Minas Gerais (Perez-Goodwyn 2006), Pará (Almeida et al. 2019), Paraná (De Carlo 1931), Rio de Janeiro (Mayr 1866; Ribeiro 2005), Rio Grande do Sul (Ribeiro et al. 2018), Santa Catarina (Cummings 1933; Perez-Goodwyn 2006), São Paulo (Cummings 1933; De Carlo 1964; Perez-Goodwyn 2006); COLOMBIA (Perez-Goodwyn 2006); COSTA RICA (Menke 1963); ECUADOR (Cummings 1933); GUYANA (Perez-Goodwyn 2006); NICARAGUA (Menke 1963); PANAMA (Cummings 1933); PARAGUAY (De Carlo 1930); PERU (Aichinger 1987); SURINAME (Nieser 1975); VENEZUELA (De Carlo 1964).
Distribution in northeastern Brazil
Bahia, and Maranhão.
Note
First records from the state of Maranhão.
description: Published as part of Franco, Cleilton Lima, Stefanello, Fabiano, Azevêdo, Carlos Augusto Silva de & Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, 2024, Belostomatidae Leach, 1815 (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Nepomorpha) of northeastern Brazil, pp. 271-304 in European Journal of Taxonomy 932 on pages 291-293, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.932.2537, http://zenodo.org/record/11190467