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Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina

versión impresa ISSN 0373-5680versión On-line ISSN 1851-7471

Rev. Soc. Entomol. Argent. vol.74 no.3-4 La Plata dic. 2015

 

NOTA CIENTÍFICA

Contributions to the knowledge of Hypercompsa, new register from Argentina (Blattaria: Corydiidae)

Contribución al conocimiento de Hypercompsa, primer registro de la Argentina (Blattaria, Corydiidae)

 

Crespo, Francisco A.1, Osvaldo Di Iorio2 & Alejandra del C. Valverde2

1 Centro Nacional de Diagnóstico e Investigación en Endemo-epidemias. Administración Nacional de Laboratorios e Institutos de Salud "Dr. Carlos G. Malbrán". Av. Paseo Colón 568 (C1281ACS), Buenos Aires, Argentina. E-mail. paco.crespo@gmail.com.
2 Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental, FCEN. Universidad de Buenos Aires. 4 Piso, Pabellón II, Ciudad Universitaria (C1428EHA), Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Recibido: 19-IX-2015
Aceptado: 9-XI-2015

 


RESUMEN.Se registra por primera vez de la Argentina Hypercompsa fieberi (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865) y se describe el hábitat particular de esta cucaracha, asociada al nido de hormigas Acromyrmex lundi (Guérin, 1838). Todas las especies incluidas en el género son georreferenciadas y se muestra su distribución en un mapa..

PALABRAS CLAVE: Hypercompsa fieberi; Cucarachas; Nido de hormigas; Distribución; Argentina

ABSTRACT.Hypercompsa fieberi (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865) from Argentina is registered for the first time and the cockroach particular habitat associated with the ant nest of Acromyrmex lundi (Guérin, 1838) is described. All species included in the genus are georeferenced and their distribution is shown in a map. 

KEY WORDS: Hypercompsa fieberi; Cockroaches; Argentina; Distribution; Ant nest


 

The specific diversity and geographical distribution of cockroaches (Blattaria) from Argentina were studied by Crespo & Valverde (2008), and afterwards organized in a catalogue by Crespo et al. (2010).

The Neotropical genus Hypercompsa Saussure, 1864 includes five species, distributed from north to south as follows: H. venezuelana Bonfils, 1987 [Venezuela. Cueva de Hueque and Cueva de los morritos]; H. anolaima Hebard, 1921 [Panamá, Portobelo; Colombia, Anolaima]; H. xanthosticta Hebard, 1933 [Colombia. Antioquia, Medellin; Cundinamarca, Anolaima; Caldas, Manizales; Bolívar; Tolima]; H. fenestrina Saussure, 1864, [Brazil. Mato Grosso, Sierra de Bodoquena, Corrego Azul I and III]; H. fieberi (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865) [Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Tijuca; Parana, Curitiba and Santa Catarina] (Beccaloni, 2007). The genus Hypercompsa and the species H. fieberi are herein reported for the first time from Argentina, and the habitat of this species is described.

The material studied is deposited in the Instituto Fundación Miguel Lillo (IMLA). Measurements are given in Table I. Localities of all the species included in Hypercompsa georeferenced (Fig. 1) follow the protocol proposed by Wieczorek et al. (2004) [datum WGS84]. The biogeographic provinces mentioned follow Morrone (2006).

Table I. Hypercompsa fieberi corporal measurements


Fig. 1. Geographic distribution of Hypercompsa in Argentina.

Hypercompsa Saussure, 1864: 323.

Synonym Diaphana Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865: 349 [Brazil].

H. fieberi (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865: 349)

Synonym H. cynipsoides Walker, 1868: 61. [(Cat.) Rio de Janeiro, Tijuca]

Rocha e Silva, I., 1964: 2 [(Lista) Rio de Janeiro, Parana), 1971: 1 [Santa Catarina] and 1982: 2 [(Lista) Rio de Janeiro]; Dourojeanni, M. J. & Tovar, A.,1974: 10 [Mentions the species with doubts from Perú, Parque Nacional de Tingo María, Cueva de las Lechuzas].

Material examined. ARGENTINA–province of Salta: Parque Nacional Baritú, Río Pescado and Río Porongal, 700 m altitude, 30-X to 7-XII-1978, P. Fidaldo leg., 1 female [IMLA]; province of Buenos Aires: Campo de Mayo, 15-II-2012, 1 female, in debris pile of the nest (Fig. 4) of a leaf-cutter ant Acromyrmex lundi (Guérin, 1838) [Hymenoptera: Formicidae]. Measurements in Table 1.


Figs. 2-9. Hypercompsa fiebri female. 2, specimen from Campo de Mayo, habitus dorsal view. 3, Pronotum, dorsal view. 4, diagram of a longitudinal section of a tree showing the location of the ant nest, (the star indicates where the cockroach was found), specimen from Parque Nacional Baritú, province of Salta. 5–6, habitus, dorsal and ventral view. 7, subgenital segment, ventral view. 8, subgenital lobes, detail. 9, leg I, front femur, tibia and tarsus. Scale Figs. 2, 5, 6 = 5 mm. Scale Figs. 3, 7, 9 = 1 mm.

Description of the female of Hypercompsa fieberi. McKittric (1964) described the genitalia and Bell et al. (2007) illustrated the spermatheca of H. fieberi, but the two females studied here (Figs. 2, 3, 5, 6) have some characteristics that can be added to the description of the species: shiny oceli between the compound eyes and the dorsal region of the antennal acetabulum; scape and basal eighteen antennal articles dark, continued by eight tawny articles; apical recurved ending formed by the four last dark articles. Pronotum surface covered with short hair randomly disposed, longer at lateral borders (Fig. 3). Femoral anterior ventral edge of leg I type C (Roth, 2003) with a comb of tiny spines and 3 long hairs, 1 apical spine and genicular spine present; legs II and III with apical and genicular spines; basitarsus of leg I shorter than the sum of the tarsites length (Fig. 9); basitarsus of legs II and III longer than the combined total length of the other tarsites. Abdomen, subgenital plate with a raised central region and concave lateral areas (Fig. 7); apical edge with an inverted V-shaped in its center from which emerge two terminal lobes (Fig. 8). Coloration: pro, meso, metanotum and the first two abdominal terga with tawny yellow posterior edge; abdominal segments I and II with a lateral spot on both sides; cerci yellow.

Habitat. The specimen of H. fieberi was found buried in one of the debris piles (Fig. 4). The ant nest was disposed in alternate layers filling hollow boles of the trees. The fungus garden was hidden below the roots of a tree (Eucalyptus sp). One mound of an active entrance to the nest was located outside the hollow bole of the tree, filled with alternate layers of mounds (from inactive anterior entrances) and debris piles. When the debris pile was disassembled, the insect showed a lucifugous behavior.

It is remarkable that the specimen of H. fieberi resembles in size, color and behavior a small stinky bug (Hemiptera: Cydnidae: Thyreocorinae), also found in some debris piles of A. lundi nests.

Hebard (1919 [1920]) mentioned a female of H. fieberi from Panama, but posteriorly he described H. anolaima Hebard, 1921 and associated that female to this species. Therefore, the species distribution extended from Rio de Janeiro to the southernmost location known in Santa Catarina state in Brazil (Beccaloni, 2007). In Argentina, we found H. fieberi in two very distant locations: in the northern locality of Salta that belongs to the Yungas province (Amazonian Subregion), and in the southern locality in Buenos Aires that belongs to the Pampa province (Chacoan Subregion). The distance between both locations is of approximately 1400 km (Fig. 1).

Bonfils (1987) describes H. venezuelana captured in the caves of Hueque and of Los morritos and mentions detritus without any further explanation for the holotype collected by O. Linares. Cordeiro et al. (2014) mentions H. fenestrina from the caves of Sierra de Bodoquena. Finally, Dourojeanni & Tovar (1974) found in Cueva de las lechuzas, Parque Nacional Tingo María, Perú, abundant specimens of Hypercompsa which were identified with doubts as H. fieberi. The habitat of H. xanthosticta from Caldas (Salazar, 2012) and H. anolaima from Panama and Colombia is not described.

The specimen of H. fieberi was found in a very particular habitat, the debris piles of an ant, in the province of Buenos Aires. Nevertheless, a more intensive examination of the insect fauna in the debris piles of leaf-cutter ants from Argentina is needed, particularly to verify if the presence of H. fieberi was casual.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We want to thank Mr. Filiberto Iesulauro who allowed us to collect insects in Campo de Mayo. We are very grateful to Mr. Hernán Iuri for georeferencing the localities of the species herein studied and the elaboration of the distribution map. This work was funded by Centro Nacional de Diagnóstico e Investigación en Endemo-Epidemias, Administración Nacional de Laboratorios e Institutos de Salud "Dr. Carlos G. Malbrán" and Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires.

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