Buenoa unguis Truxal

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Buenoa unguis Truxal, 1953: 1476 [Type locality: Vicinity of Rioja, Dept. San Martin, Peru; distribution and records: Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina; Types in Francis Huntington Snow Entomological Collections, University of Kansas (U.S.A.)]; Truxal (1957): 17 [Systematics; expedition in Goiás and Tocantins (Brazil)]; Bachmann (1971): 607 [Records: Paraguay, Argentina]; Nieser (1975): 178 [Records: Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina]; Andrade (1992): 596 [Larvicidal effect; Record: Pará (Brazil)]; Nieser and Melo (1997): 15 [Key to Buenoa of Minas Gerais, Brazil]; Bachmann (1998): 179 [Argentina]; Melo and Nieser (2004): 45 [Faunistical notes; survey: Januária (Brazil)]; Herrera Millán (2005): 118 [Survey: Venezuela]; Barbosa et al. (2010b): 561 [Key to Buenoa of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil]; Ribeiro et al. (2010): 308 [Survey: Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)]; Rico et al. (2010): 766 [Insecticide effect; Record: Manaus (Brazil)]; Melo et al. (2011): 5 [Survey: Chaco National Park (Argentina)]; Heckman (2011): 484 [Key to Buenoa of South America]; Moreira et al. (2011): 55 [Check-list of Brazil].

Comments. Buenoa unguis, with B. tarsalis, B. tibialis and B. femoralis are the largest species of Buenoa occurring in the Amazon Region. For comparisons see B. tarsalis .

Material. BRAZIL: Estado do Amazonas, Município de Presidente Figueiredo, U.H.E Balbina [1.915ºS / 59.473ºW], 15.I.1988 (B. Mascarenhas), det. J. F. Barbosa: 2 m and 2 f macropterous (MPEG); 18.I.1988: 3 m and 4 f macropterous (MPEG); Município de Manaus, AM 0 10, km 37, tanque de piscicultura [2.75ºS / 59.91ºW], 24.VI.2008 (R. G. Corrêa): 4 m and 3 f macropterous (INPA); Município de Iranduba, poça [3.2ºS / 60.1ºW], 08.VII.2008 (J. F. Barbosa, P. V. Cruz & L. M. Fusari): 12 m and 14 f macropterous (INPA); Estado do Pará, Município de Benevides, Fazenda Morelândia [1.410ºS / 48.250ºW], 31.III.1983 (B. Mascarenhas): 1 m macropterous (MPEG).