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CRESPO, Francisco A.; DI IORIO, Osvaldo; VALVERDE, Alejandra del C.

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

Corydiidae)

Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina, vol. 74, núm. 3-4, 2015, pp. 203-207

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

1Centro Nacional de Diagnóstico e Investigación en Endemo-epidemias. Administración Na-cional de Laboratorios e Institutos de Salud “Dr. Carlos G. Malbrán”. Av. Paseo Colón 568 (C1281ACS), Buenos Aires, Argentina. E-mail. paco.crespo@gmail.com2Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental, FCEN. Universidad de Buenos Aires. 4 Piso, Pabellón II, Ciudad Universitaria (C1428EHA), Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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

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

PALABRAS CLAVE. Hypercompsa fieberi. Cucarachas. Nido de hormigas. Distri-bución. 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.

CRESPO, Francisco A.1, Osvaldo DI IORIO2 & Alejandra del C. VALVERDE2

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Nota Científica Scientific Note

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

The Neotropical genus Hypercompsa Sau-ssure, 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 He-bard, 1921 [Panamá, Portobelo; Colombia, Anolaima]; H. xanthosticta Hebard, 1933 [Co-lombia. 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 ge-nus 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 Institu-to 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 prov-inces mentioned follow Morrone (2006).

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 Ja-

neiro, Parana), 1971: 1 [Santa Catarina] and 1982: 2 [(Lista) Rio de Janeiro]; Dourojeanni, M. J. & Tovar, A.,1974: 10 [Mentions the spe-cies with doubts from Perú, Parque Nacional

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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 Bue-nos 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.

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

Fig. 1. Geographic distribution of Hypercompsa in Argentina.

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ARGENTINA

Salta, Parque Nacional

Baritú. Female (mm)

Buenos Aires, Campo de

Mayo. Female (mm)

Total length 8.00 7.00

Body length 5.60 5.20

Pronotal length 1.70 1.60

Pronotal width 2.70 2.60

Tegmen length 6.20 5.40

Tegmen width 1.90 2.40

Interocular distance 0.90 0.95

Interocelar distance 0.90 0.80

Interantennal distance 0.75 0.75

Table I. Hypercompsa fieberi corporal measurements

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.

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, con-tinued by eight tawny articles; apical recurved ending formed by the four last dark articles. Pro-notum surface covered with short hair randomly disposed, longer at lateral borders (Fig. 3). Fem-oral 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

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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 geo-referencing 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-Ep-idemias, Administración Nacional de Laborato-rios 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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