Abstract

MELO, María C.; DELLAPE, Pablo M.; CARPINTERO, Diego L.  and  COSCARON, María del C.. Miridae, Reduviidae and Lygaeoidea (Hemiptera) collected in Colonia Carlos Pellegrini (Iberá watershed, Corrientes, Argentina). Rev. Soc. Entomol. Argent. [online]. 2004, vol.63, n.1-2, pp.59-67. ISSN 0373-5680.

With the intention of contributing to the knowledge of the biodiversity in the protected areas of Argentina, terrestrial Heteroptera were collected in the Natural Reserve of the Iberá. The sampling site was the locality of Colonia Carlos Pellegrini (28° 32'S 57° 09'W) and the following collection methods were used: sweeping, beating, fogging and light-trapping. A list is presented, with 90 species belonging to the superfamilies Reduvioidea (Reduviidae), Mirioidea (Miridae), and Lygaeoidea (Berytidae, Colobathristidae, Cymidae, Lygaeidae, Blissidae, Geocoridae, Pachygrontidae and Rhyparochromidae), 13 of them are new records for the Argentine Republic (Debilia fusciventris, Sindala granuligera, Pnirontis (Centromelus) tabida, Cymoninus notabilis, Ochrimnus (Phaeochrimnus) limbatipennis, Oncopeltus luctuosus, Ischnodemus gayi, Oedancala nana, Cistalia signoretii, Paracholula picta, Cholula lympha, Cholula maculatus, Pseudopachybrachius vinctus) and 36 new records for the province of Corrientes.

Keywords : Inventory; Heteroptera; Corrientes; Argentina; Wetland.

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