Nota científica

Blattaria, new generic and specific records for Argentina

Blattaria, nuevos registros de géneros y especies en Argentina

 

CRESPO, Francisco A.^1* & VALVERDE, Alejandra del C.²

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. Piso 4, Pabellón II, Ciudad Universitaria (C1428EHA), Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Received 12 - I - 2018 | Accepted 30 - V - 2018 | Published 28 - VI - 2018 https://doi.org/10.25085/rsea.770207

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ABSTRACT. Three genera, four species and the phenotype of Blattella germanica are recorded for the frst time from Argentina. The distribution area of 15 species is expanded. The cockroach fauna from Argentina is still poorly known and currently represented by 45 genera and 100 species.

KEYWORDS. Cariblattoides. Cockroach. Hormetica. Leuropeltis. Phenotype.

RESUMEN. Tres géneros, cuatro especies y el fenotipo de Blattella germanica se registran por primera vez en Argentina. El área de distribución de 15 especies se amplía. La fauna de cucarachas en Argentina actualmente representada por 45 géneros y 100 especies, es aún poco conocida.

PALABRAS CLAVE. Cariblattoides. Cucaracha. Fenotipo. Hormetica. Leuropeltis.

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The frst revision of Blattaria from Argentina, carried out by Crespo & Valverde (2008), considered both material housed in museums and literature available on the subject. A catalog of the cockroach species known from Argentina was published subsequently (Crespo et al., 2010). These studies included the scattered information about the biodiversity of the order and analyzed the biotic affnities among the biogeographical provinces.

Valverde et al. (2012) recorded for the frst time the genus Schistopeltis Rehn 1928, extending the distribution of S. lizeriRehn from Bolivia to the Province of Chaco, Argentina. A few years later Crespo et al. (2015b) described a new species of TriboniumSaussure 1862, T. rothi Crespo, Valverde and Iglesias from the Province of Misiones and the number of species of the genus is increased with the new records of T. conspersum (Guérin-Méneville & Percheron) from the Provinces of Jujuy, Misiones and Tucumán, and T.

neospectrumLopes from Misiones.

Crespo et al. (2015a) cited for the frst time Hypercompsa feberi(Brunner von Wattenwyl) from the Provinces of Tucumán and Buenos Aires . Valverde et al. (2016) recorded Lanta borgesae Rocha e Silva & Vasconcellos from the province of Misiones. Both species were known from southeastern Brazil.

The collections of the Museo de La Plata (MLP), Instituto Fundación Miguel Lillo (IFML) and Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" (MACN) are again reviewed. The authors contributions housed in the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales-Universidad de Buenos Aires (FCEN) are added. Taxa hierarchy follows the up-to-date database of the cockroaches of the world by Beccaloni (2014).

The aim of this communication is to update, from 2010 onwards, the generic and specifc novel records and expand their known distribution area. Distributional data known from Argentina previous to the present study is listed in "Catalogue of Blattaria (Insecta) from Argentina" (Crespo et al., 2010) and we refer the readers to that study for complete records.

Blattidae Latreille

Blattinae

BlattaLinnaeus

Blatta orientalisLinnaeus. Province of Buenos Aires: La Plata, 28/9 to 23/10/1970, coll.: Trotta, H. (MLP). New locality record.

PeriplanetaBurmeister

Periplaneta americana (Linnaeus). Province of Santiago del Estero: Negra muerta, [-27.526425, -64.117344]. Province of Córdoba: Bajo Grande, 12/11/ 1939, coll.: C. M. A. M. (MLP).

New locality records.

Periplaneta fuliginosa Serville. Province of Buenos Aires: La Plata, 5/7/1982, coll.: Argemi, A.A. (MLP).

New locality record.

Ectobiidae Brunner von Wattenwyl Blattellinae

Blattella Caudell

B lattella germanica (Linnaeus) (Fig. 1B). The researchers of Centro de Investigaciones de Plagas e Insecticidas (CIPEIN), where this species is reared since 2014, observed the appearance of a new morph with a homogeneously coloured pronotum (Fig. 1a). We identifed them as the phenotype of B. germanica, described by Roth (1985), lacking the characteristic black pronotal longitudinal bands of this species.

Ischnoptera Burmeister

Ischnoptera argentina Hebard. Province of Buenos Aires: La Plata, 2/11/1976, coll.: Loiacono, M., and 7/12/ 1975, coll.: Argemi, A.A. (MLP).

New locality record.

Ischnoptera bilunata Saussure. Province of Jujuy: Ledesma, 28/1/1958, colls.: Torres-Ferreira [-23.8505667, -64.7928138]. Province of Santiago del Estero: coll.: Wagner. Province of Misiones: Villa Lanús, 5/1964. [-27.4333, -55.8833]. (MLP).

New locality records.

Nyctiborinae

PseudischnopteraSaussure

Peudischnoptera rhabdota Hebard. Province of Santiago del Estero: Río Salado, date missing, colls.: Wagner - Bosq, J.M. (MLP).

New locality record.

Pseudophyllodromiinae

AgmoblattaGurney & Roth

Agmoblatta thaxteri (Hebard) (=Loboptera thaxteri) Province of Buenos Aires: Tandil, Piedra Movediza, 11/ 10/1964, colls.: Alzuet, A.B. - Darrieu. (MLP).

New locality record.

CariblattoidesRehn & Hebard

Cariblattoides fontesi Rocha e Silva. Province of Misiones: Parque Nacional Iguazú, 20/01/2005, colls.: Ramírez Llorens, P. & Piacentini, L. Low stratum of secondary jungle. (FCEN).

New genus and species record.

LeuropeltisHebard

Leropeltis hebardi Gutiérrez. Provincia de Formosa: County Laishí, Herradura, 12/2015, colls.: Crespo, F.A. & Valverde, A.C. [-26.48333, -58.300] (FCEN). Collected at night, the specimens few towards artifcial light.

New genus and species record.

Neoblattella Shelford

Neoblattella tapenagae Hebard. Province of Misiones: County Cainguás, 2 de mayo. 14/11/1976, colls.: Spinelli, G.R. - Domizi, A.L., [-27.019722, -54.68444]. (MLP).

New locality record.

Supella Shelford

Supella longipalpa (Fabricius). Province of Córdoba: Córdoba capital, 02/2009, coll.: Lax, P. (FCEN). Province of Santiago del Estero: Sarmiento, Negra Muerta, date and coll.: missing [-28.96667, -63.96667] (MLP).

New locality records.

Blaberidae Saussure Blaberinae

Blaberus Serville

Blaberus affnis Jurberg, Albuquerque, Rebordoes, Gonçalves & Felippe. Province of Salta: County Santa Victoria, 17/7/1933, coll.: Denier, P .C. [-22.3695028, -65.0008527] (MLP).

New species record.

Blaberus scutatus Saussure & Zehntner. Province of Chaco: Estancia Anelo, Camino a Zapallar, 10-15/3/ 1949, Birabén M.; Resistencia, Estancia La Amalia, 13/ 9, colls.: Martín, E. & Galván, M. Province of Córdoba: Los Cocos, El Piquillín, 17/2/1944, coll.: Miss. Prichard [-31.2933333, -63.7571083]. Province of Corrientes: 15-30/2/1959, coll.: Birabén, M. Province of Formosa: Pirané, 15/11/1942, coll.: Birabén, M. [-25.7377889, -59.11155]; Mojón Fierro, 11/12/1939, coll.: Denier, P.C. [-26.0318806, -58.0482444] Province of Santiago del Estero: Robles, Turema, 11/1939, coll.: Missing (MLP).

New species records.

Fig. 1 Blattella germánica. A. Morph described by Roth (1985). B. Characteristic phenotype of the species. Scale = 1 mm

Blaptica Stal

Blaptica dubia (Serville). Province of Buenos Aires: Punta Blanca, Puerto Magdalena, 16-18/10/1949 coll.: Gethard, I. Province of Córdoba: County Calamuchita, El Sauce 12/1939, coll.: Viana, M.J. [-31.0957306, -64.3103555]; Cosquín, 17/1/1939 colls.: Birabén, M. - Scott, M.I.H. [-31.2469194, -64.4703861]; County Colón, Cabana, 2/1939, colls.: Birabén, M. - Scott, M.I.H. [-31.236111, -64.3280556]. Province of Corrientes: Manantiales, 2/1946, coll.: Birabén, M. [-27.9219694, -58.0996527]. Province of Santiago del Estero: County Sarmiento, Matará, 12/12/1939, coll.: Birabén, M. [-28.1069444, -63.1938889], det. Lopes y Oliveira. (MLP).

New locality records.

Blaptica formosa Lopes & Oliveira. Province of Buenos Aires: Tandil, Parque Independencia, 21/03/ 1959, colls.: Vidal Sarmiento, J. - Alzuet, A.B., [-34.848333, -57.8872222] det. Lopes, Oliveira & Asunción. (MLP).

New species record.

Blaptica gaucha Lopes & Oliveira. Province of Buenos Aires: Tandil, Sierra Las Ánimas, 20/03/1959, colls.: Vidal Sarmiento, J. - Alzuet, A.B., [-34.7519444, -55.3197222], det. Lopes, Oliveira & Asunción. (MLP).

New species record.

Blaptica interior Hebard. Province of Santiago del Estero: Río Salado. Date missing. coll.: Wagner. (MLP).

New locality record.

Hormetica Burmeister

Hormetica laevigata Burmeister. Province of Misiones: Iguazú, 30/1 to 13/3/1945 colls.: Hayward, K.J., Willink, A. & Goldbach, R. (IFML). Province of Misiones: Iguazú, 11/1944, coll.: Prosen, A. (MLP).

New genus and species record.

MonastriaSaussure

Monastria similis (Serville) Province of Misiones: County Iguazú, Puerto Bemberg (nowadays Puerto Libertad), 1934, Coll.: Haywards, K.J. (bought to) [-25.92138889, -54.584444] (MACN).

New locality record.

ParahormeticaBunner

Parahormetica bilobata (Saussure). Province of Misiones: Monte altos Villa Lanús, 24/5/1964 coll.: Togo. [-27.4333, -55.8833]; Loretto, 4/1951, coll.: Bosq, J.M. [-27.3164778, -55.5346277] (MLP).

New locality records.

Parahormetica cicatricosa Saussure. Province of Misiones: Parque Provincial Salto Encantado, 24/11/ 1996, coll.: Aertz, H. [-27.1, -54.9333333] (FCEN).

New locality record.

Pycnoscelinae

PycnoscelusScudder

Pycnoscelus surinamensis (Linnaeus). Province of Corrientes: San Roque, 2/1920, coll.: Bosq, J.M. [-28.5743778, -58.7082194] (MLP).

New locality record.

Zetoborinae

PhortioecaSaussure

Phortioeca verrucosa(Saussure). Province of Chaco: La escondida, 28/10/1936, coll.: Denier, P.C.

[-27.10388889, -59.4452778] (MLP); Charata, 10/1924, coll.: Bosq, J.M. Province of Salta: Güemes, 19/7/1913, coll.: Joërgensen, P. [-24.6667361, -65.0501111] (MACN).

New locality records.

From the present study we found that three genera, seven species and a phenotype are registered for the frst time from Argentina. The distribution area of 15 species is expanded. We must also add two genera and six species, cited in literature since 2010. Therefore, the number of genera and species of cockroaches found in Argentina is increased to 45 and 100 respectively (plus two species incertae sedis ). The above mentioned B. germanica morph should be studied genetically.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We want to thank Mr. Bernardino Rojas (IFML) and Dr. Emilia C. Pérez (IFML), Dr. Arturo Roig Alsina (MACN), Dr. Analía Lanteri (MLP) and Dr. Jorge Salas (MLP) for their help. We are very grateful to Dr. Raúl Alzogaray (CIPEIN) for lending us the morph specimens. 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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