S. Mahunka szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 30/2. (Budapest, 1977)

FOLIA ENTOMOLOGICA HUNGARICA ROVARTANI KÖZLEMÉNYEK (SERIES NOVA) XXX. 2. 1977 p. 87 94 Belostomatidae from the Hungarian Natural History Museum (Heteroptera) By N. NIESER (Received December 29, 1976) Abstract: A revision of the Belostomatid material preserved in the Hemiptera Collection, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, and faunistical data submitted from other smaller collections. Locality data from the Neotropical, Ethiopian, and Oriental Regions , Through the kindness of Dr. T.

VÁSÁRHELYI I was allowed to study the unidentified Belostomatidae in the Zoological Department of the Hungarian Natural History Museum. The Present paper deals with the distributional records based on these specimens together with some records of other specimens. If no indication is given the specimens are in the Collections of the Museum at Budapest (and a few in Author's collection). Further collections of which specimens have been studied are CN (NIESER collection); CP (collection of Dr. F.PLAUMANN, Nova Teutonia, Sta. Catarina, Brasil); CW (collection of Dr. H.H.WEBER, Kiel, which in the future will be transferred to the Museum at Hamburg); LM (Leiden Museum). Thanks are due to Mrs. E. de GROOT - TAAT for correcting the English. The higher classification of the recent forms of the Belostomatidae has been treated by LAUCK et MENKE 1961, whereas POPOV 1971 incorporates some fossil taxa. Essentially this family is restricted to the tropics and subtropics, one species reaches Europe and a few Southern Canada. Synonymy is, in the better known genera, restricted to important revisions or larger local surveys. Belostoma Latreille 1803. Small to large Belostomatidae, the numerous species are restricted to the Western Hemisphere where they are regionally common and abudant, especially South America is rich in species. A revision of the genus was started by LAUCK 1962-1964 but unfortunately he did not finish it. LAUCK I.e. divided the genus in species groups which are mostly quite natural, but in some cases, in my opinion, more arbitrarily delimited. Belostoma bergi (Montadon) - Zaitha bergi Montadon, 1899: 172-173; Belostoma bergi: Lauck 1964: 109-111, Fig. 79. 85. Known primarily from Argentina and Paraguay, also recorded from Uruguay and Peru. Argentina: Chaco, Resistencia, 23. Xn. 1965, 39 (Mahunka, PB313, HSZ exp.) Belostoma bosqi De Carlo - Belostoma bosqi De Carlo, 1932: 126; Lauck 1964: 108-109, Fig. 78, 84; Nieser 1975: 111, pi. 6d, Fig. 130, 148. Known from Argentina to Venezuela and Suriname but the localities are quite scattered.