Water Bug Updates
(last update 8-xii-2020)
Belostomatidae
The subgenus Benacus of
Lethocerus has been reinstated as a full
genus. See: Perez Goodwyn, P.J. 2006. Taxonomic revision of
the subfamily Lethocerinae Lauck & Menke (Heteroptera:
Belostomatidae). Stuttgarter Beitr. Naturk. 695: 1-71. Thus,
our largest belostomatid is now called Benacus griseus
(Say).
11-vi-2006
Corixidae
Sigara
virginiensis Hungerford from unnamed small creek N of Lake
Iamonia (Leon Co.) is new for Florida.
8-xii-2020
The genera Micronecta and Synaptonecta have been
placed in their own family, Micronectidae.
See Epler, J.H. & Denson, D.R. 2017. New records of
Corixidae and Micronectidae (Insecta: Heteroptera: Corixoidea)
from Florida, with a checklist of all species known from the
state. Entomological News 126: 410-414.
12-v-2017
Thanks to Donald Ray and
Rick Abad, we have two new Florida corixid records:
Hesperocorixa obliqua
(Hungerford) (Escambia Co., Pine Barren Creek)
This species was not covered in my 2006 manual. It will key to
couplet 8 (p. 3.12); it can be separated by the more apically
produced male pala and the different genitalia (see below)
H. obliqua male
pala
H. obliqua male
genitalia
Sigara mississippiensis
Hungerford (Escambia Co., Pine Barren Creek)
27-xi-2009
Trichocorixa macroceps (Kirkaldy) has been collected in the Florida Panhandle (Manning Creek,
Santa Rosa Co.).
3-vi-2006