Lethocerus annulipes
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 annulipes

description: Lethocerus annulipes (Herrich-Schäffer, 1845)
Figs 14, 45
Diagnosis
Eyes with mesal margins parallel, posterior margins straight; fore claw longer than tarsomeres; prosternal keel pointed at apex (Perez-Goodwyn 2006: fig. 38); ventromesal projection of hind tibia rounded (Perez-Goodwyn 2006: fig. 3); parasternites III–VI or VII with longitudinal dark stripe (Fig. 14) (Perez-Goodwyn 2006).
Material examined
BRAZIL – Ceará • 1 ♂; Ubajara municipality, Parque Nacional de Ubajara, Cachoeira do Cafundó; 3°50′13″ S, 40°54′35″ W; 21–24 Apr. 2012; J.A. Rafael and F. Limeira-de-Oliveira leg. [00028]; C.L. Franco det. 2021; CZMA. – Maranhão • 1 ♂; Caxias municipality, Reserva Ecologica do Inhamum; [4°53′56″ S, 43°26′10″ W]; 1– 3 Sep. 200? [year unknown]; F. Limeira-de-Oliveira et al. leg. [00006]; C.L. Franco det. 2021; CZMA • 1 ♂; Fumo Verde; [4°55′15.0″ S, 43°21′04.0″ W]; 20 Feb. 2004; F. Limeira-de-Oliveira et al. leg. [00026]; C.L. Franco det. 2021; CZMA • 1 ♀; Universidade Estadual do Maranhão, Morro do Alecrim; 4°51′56″ S, 43°21′16″ W; 26 Feb. 2017; F. Limeira-de-Oliveira leg. [00032]; C.L. Franco det. 2021; CZMA • 1 ♀; Mirador municipality [sic, Formosa da Serra Negra], Parque Estadual do Mirador, Base da geraldina; [6°37′25″ S, 45°52′08″ W]; 11–15 Nov. 2007; F. Limeira-de-Oliveira leg. [00007]; C.L. Franco det. 2021; CZMA.
Distribution
ARGENTINA (Berg 1879); BRAZIL (Dohrn 1859; Dufour 1863; Mayr 1866): Amazonas (Almeida et al. 2019), Bahia (Perez-Goodwyn 2006), Ceará (this work), Goiás (Menke & Lauck 1962; Perez-Goodwyn 2006; Batista et al. 2014), Maranhão (Almeida et al. 2019; this work), Mato Grosso (De Carlo 1938; Heckman 1998; Almeida et al. 2019), Mato Grosso do Sul (Floriano et al. 2013), Minas Gerais (Nieser & Melo 1997; Melo & Nieser 2004; Souza et al. 2006), Paraíba (Almeida et al. 2019), Paraná (Batista et al. 2013; Gambale et al. 2014; Almeida et al. 2019), Rio de Janeiro (Mayr 1866; Ribeiro 2005; Figueiredo-de-Andrade et al. 2010; Ribeiro et al. 2017), Rio Grande do Sul (De Carlo 1964; Lanzer 1975; Link & Lanzer-de-Souza 1983; Lanzer-de-Souza 1988; Perez-Goodwyn 2006; Ribeiro et al. 2017), Roraima (Almeida et al. 2019), Santa Catarina (Cummings 1933; Perez-Goodwyn 2006), São Paulo (Cummings 1933; Perez-Goodwyn 2006); COLOMBIA (Champion 1901); COSTA RICA (Pittier & Biolley 1895); DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (Reid & Malumphy 2008); ECUADOR (Uhler 1869); FRENCH GUIANA (Cummings 1933); GUADELOUPE (Meurgey 2011); GUYANA (Cummings 1933); HISPANIOLA ISLAND (Menke 1963); NICARAGUA (Maes 1989); PANAMA (Champion 1901); PARAGUAY (De Carlo 1930); PUERTO RICO (Barber 1923); SURINAME (Mayr 1871); TRINIDAD & TOBAGO (Hynes 1948); URUGUAY (De Carlo 1930); VENEZUELA (Mayr 1871).
Distribution in northeastern Brazil
Ceará, Maranhão, and Paraíba.
Note
First record from the state of Ceará.
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 290-291, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.932.2537, http://zenodo.org/record/11190467