Buenoa koina Nieser & Pelli, 1994

Jordão, Rafael, Barbosa, Julianna Freires & Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, 2025, Survey of the Notonectidae (Insecta, Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Nepomorpha) from northeastern Brazil, ZooKeys 1233, pp. 245-288 : 245-288

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1233.120598
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E95BDD70-F0F2-429D-9981-55AA5C47BBEA
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15119663
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scientific name	Buenoa koina Nieser & Pelli, 1994
status

Treatment

Buenoa koina Nieser & Pelli, 1994 View in CoL

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Buenoa koina Nieser & Pelli, 1994: 3, 4, figs 8–10 [original description]. View in CoL

Diagnosis.

Medium-sized species, male length ~ 5.9 mm. Synthlipsis wide, slightly> 1 / 2 of vertex width. Labial prong subequal to slightly shorter than third labial article, originating proximally on article. Fore femur with weak stridulatory area containing 4–6 ridges.

Taxonomic notes.

Buenoa koina is one of smallest species of the genus with wide synthlipsis. It can be distinguished from the most similar species, B. pallens ( Champion, 1901) and B. pallipes (Fabricius, 1803) , by the pronotum not tricarinate and the shorter length of the labial prongthan in the two aforementioned species.

Distribution.

Brazil: BA [new record], MG ( Nieser and Pelli 1994; Nieser and Melo 1997; Carrenho et al. 2020).

Material examined.

Brazil,! BA, 2018: 4 ♂, 1 ♀: Mucugê municipality, PNCD, Água 3 station , 19. VIII. 2018. -12.9908, -41.3507. J. M. S. Rodrigues col., CEIOC 81921 GoogleMaps . Same state, 2021: 1 ♂, 2 ♀: same data, except: Palmeiras municipality, Rio Preto, Água 1 station , 820 m, 05. V. 2021. -12.6036, -41.5250. J. M. S. Rodrigues & J. F. Barbosa cols., CEIOC 81920 GoogleMaps .