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Revision of Limnocoris (Heteroptera: Nepomorpha: Naucoridae) of North America

Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 04263-000, Brazil. E-mail: Current address, Museu de História Natural da Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, 57010-060, Brazil
Enns Entomology Museum, Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65211, U.S.A.
Hemiptera Limnocorinae new species saucer bug taxonomy

Abstract

The North American species of Limnocoris are revised and total 13 species after the present study. Four new species are described and illustrated: L. chaetocarinatus n. sp. from Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia; L. major n. sp. and L. nanus n. sp. from Costa Rica and Panama; and L. zacki n. sp. from Mexico and Guatemala. Further, supplemental descriptions are provided for the previously described species. The following synonymies are proposed, with junior synonyms in brackets: L. insularis Champion [L. alcorni La Rivers n. syn.], L. pygmaeus La Rivers [L. solenoides La Rivers n. syn.], and L. signoreti Montandon [L. brailovskyi La Rivers n. syn., L. laucki La Rivers n. syn., L. stangei La Rivers n. syn.]. A lectotype is designated for L. signoreti. Limnocoris profundus (Say) is considered a nomen dubium because no type specimens have been found and the original description is insufficient to establish its identity. An illustrated taxonomic key, distribution maps, and a discussion of the characters (putative synapomorphies) not previously mentioned in the literature also are presented.

 

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