New distributional data on aquatic and semiaquatic bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha Nepomorpha) from South America

摘要

BackgroundWater bugs in general play an important role in freshwater ecosystems, and knowledge about them is essential for the study of water biology and the proper management of aquatic habitats. The Neotropical fauna is relatively well known, but the existence of large under-collected areas makes taxonomic and faunistic studies concerning the aquatic and semiaquatic bugs from tropical America urgent.