Harmostes gravidator
Creators: name: Melo, M. C.
name: Montemayor, S. I.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Rhopalidae
Harmostes
Harmostes gravidator

description: Harmostes gravidator (Fabricius, 1794)
lsid:Coreoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:452620
Coreus gravidator Fabricius 1794: 133 (America Meridionalis Insulis).
Harmostes gravidator: Göllner-Scheiding 1978a: 281 (Argentina); Göllner-Scheiding 1983: 127 (Argentina); Pall and Coscarón 2012: 1450 (Buenos Aires, Corrientes, Misiones: Loreto, Iguazú, Caraguay [sic]).
Material examined
ARGENTINA: Misiones: 1♀, 23/ 24-XI-1941, B.L. Parker col. Drake coll. (USNM); 1♀, Parque Prov. Cruce Caballero, 26°31.189´S, 53°59.196´W 621 msnm, (metros sobre nivel del mar/ metres above sea level) 6-III-2010, P. Dellapé col.; 2♂ 2♀, Iguazú, XI-1944, Birabén col. (MLP); 7♂ 1♀, same locality, XI-[19]87 (USNM); 1♂ 2♀, Dos de Mayo, XII-1989 (USNM); 1♀, same locality, XI-[19]89 (USNM); 4♂ 1♀, Apartado, XI-[19]80 (USNM); 1♀, Caraguatay, I-1960, Ronderos- Trotta cols. (MLP); 1♀, Loreto, XII-1947, A.R. Bezzi col. (MLP); 1♀, Puesta, 10-VI- 1029, O. Zahler col. (USNM); 1♂, Mesa Redonda, 27°9 ʹ 18.5 ʹʹ S, 57°58 ʹ 54.5 ʹʹ W, 365 m, 2-IV-2012, S. Montemayor col. (MLP). BRAZIL: Santa Catarina, Nova Teutonia, 22-XII-1952, F. Plaumann col., J.C. Lutz coll. (USNM); 3♂ 1♀, Santa Catarina, Nova Teutonia, 22-XII-1952, F. Plaumann col. J.C. Lutz coll. (USNM); 1♀, DF, 32 km N Brasilia, near Planaltina, 15°35 ’ S, 47°42 ʹ W, 1000 m, 17-XI- 1997, T.J. Henry col. (USNM); 1♀, Minas Gerais, Cardeal Mota at Cipo River, 19°20 ’ S, 43°38 ʹ W, MG road 10, 5/ 6-XI-1997, T.J. Henry and A. Paula cols. (USNM). PARAGUAY: Paraguari, Ybycui, 25 km SE, in Ybycui National Park, 12/ 24-IV-1980, P.J. Spangler et al. col. (USNM).
Argentinean distribution
Misiones.
Central and South American distribution
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, México, Peru, Venezuela (Göllner-Scheiding 1978a, 1983); Paraguay * NEW COUNTRY RECORD.
Comments
Pall and Coscarón (2012) mentioned Buenos Aires and Corrientes, but they did not give a bibliographical reference or a list of material from these provinces. They did not mention Mexico in the distribution of the species, and they misspelled a locality in Misiones province as ‘ Caraguay ’ instead of ‘ Caraguatay ’.
Harmostes parafraterculus Göllner-Scheiding, 1978a lsid:Coreoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:452617
Harmostes parafraterculus: Göllner-Scheiding 1978a: 311 (Argentina); Göllner-Scheiding 1979: 74 (Tucumán: Ladasma [sic], which should be Ledesma); Göllner-Scheiding 1983: 128 (Argentina); Pall and Coscarón 2012: 1451 (Argentina).
Material examined
ARGENTINA: Salta: 1♂ 1♀, San Lorenzo, 11-I-[19]50, P. Wygodzinsky col. (USNM).
Argentinean distribution
Salta * and Tucumán.
Central and South American distribution
Argentina and Brazil (Göllner-Scheiding 1978a ¸ 1979, 1983).
description: Published as part of Melo, M. C. & Montemayor, S. I., 2015, Biodiversity of the scentless plant bugs (Hemiptera: Rhopalidae) in southern South America, pp. 163-200 in Journal of Natural History 50 on pages 178-179, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1073810, http://zenodo.org/record/3983256