Buenoa konta Nieser, Pelli
Creators: name: Barbosa, Julianna Freires
name: Nessimian, Jorge Luiz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Notonectidae
Buenoa
Buenoa konta

description: Buenoa konta Nieser, Pelli
Fig. 30–32
Buenoa konta Nieser and Pelli, 1994: 1 [Type locality: Brasil, Minas Gerais, Lagoa Olho, d'Agua, Lagoa Santa; Pedro Leopoldo, Lagoa dos Mares; Ouro Branco, Lagoa Soledade; Sete Lagoas, small lake on farm; Alfenas, small semi artificial lake; Gouveia; Types in Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil); Museu de Zoologia da USP (Brazil); Coleção Entomológica Padre Jesus Santiago Moure (Brazil); Grupo Interdepartamenlal de Estudo de Esquistossomose (UFMG – Brazil); Nieser Collection; Pelli Collection; Francis Huntington Snow Entomological Collections, University of Kansas (U.S.A.); Polhemus J.T. Collection; Museon, Den Haag (Netherlands); Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum (Netherlands); Institute for Syst. and Population Biology (Zoological Museum), Univ. of Amsterdam (Netherlands); Naturhistoriscbes Museum (Osterreich)]; Nieser and Melo (1997): 77 [Key to Buenoa of Minas Gerais, Brazil]; Melo and Nieser (2004): 45 [Faunistical notes; survey: Januária, Brazil]; Barbosa et al. (2010b): 561 [Key to Buenoa of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil]; Ribeiro et al. (2010): 308 [Survey: Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)]; Heckman (2011): 477 [Key to Buenoa of South America]; Moreira et al. (2011): 54 [Check-list of Brazil].
Comments. This species is similar to the brachypterous form of B. salutis because of its reduced length, rostral prong with similar length of the third rostral segment, originating on the proximal region of this segment (Fig. 30, 69), and the stridulatory area of the fore femur being absent (Fig. 31, 70).
These species are differentiated by the characteristics that make B. konta a species apart from the salutis - group: the vertex strongly prominent before the eyes and synthilipsis not conspicuously narrow (about one-fourth of anterior width of vertex). Besides this, B. konta the tylus is not inflated, but rounded; the apex of the rostral prong is rounded, and subequal to the third rostral segment (Fig. 30); a dark stain accompanying the costal margin of the hemelytra delimits the start of the membrane; the fore femur has a broad apex; the apical teeth of the stridulatory comb of the fore tibia is larger than the basal one (Fig. 31); the left paramere has a hook more robust and the right paramere is narrower than in the second species (Fig. 32). Buenoa salutis has synthlipsis with about one-tenth of vertex width; tylus flat; the apex of the rostral prong sinuous, with equal or greater length than the third rostral segment (Fig. 69); the dark stain at the costal margin of the hemelytra absent; the fore femur has a narrow apex; the stridulatory teeth of the fore tibia is of similar size (Fig. 70); the left paramere has a longer and narrower hook and the right paramere is broader than in B. konta (Fig. 71).
Material. BRAZIL: Estado do Pará, Município de Curionópolis, FLONA de Carajás, Serra Leste, LA [6.29416ºS / 49.63194ºW], 28.II.2008 (N. Ferreira Jr. & A. P. M. Santos), det. J. F. Barbosa: 1 m brachypterous (DZRJ); Município de Parauapebas, Área de Proteção Ambiental do Igarapé Gelado, Lago Gelado, Cela 7 [5.96555ºS / 50.17286ºW], 0 3.III.2008: 1 m and 1 f brachypterous (DZRJ); FLONA de Carajás, Serra Norte, Lagoa N4-C [6.11200ºS / 50.18481ºW], 16.IV.2011 (V. F. Farjalla & M. Oliveira): 1 m and 1 f brachypterous (DZRJ); Município de Canaã dos Carajás, Serra Sul, Lagoa S11C-C [6.36795ºS / 50.38585ºW], 20.IV.2011 (P. Marinho & V. F. Farjalla): 1 m brachypterous (DZRJ); Lagoa S11D-A [6.40342ºS / 50.30763ºW], 19.IV.2011 (P. Marinho & L. Oliveira): 1 m brachypterous (DZRJ); Município de Capitão Poço, igarapé do Bonito [1.7ºS / 47.0ºW], 22.IX.1987 (S. Bahia): 1 m and 1 f brachypterous (MPEG).
description: Published as part of Barbosa, Julianna Freires & Nessimian, Jorge Luiz, 2013, The genus Buenoa Kirkaldy, 1904 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Nepomorpha: Notonectidae) in northern Brazil: inventory, new records, and new species, pp. 101-130 in Zootaxa 3694 (2) on page 111, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3694.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/221160