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Corixidae

Description

Family CORIXIDAE

Callicorixa praeusta praeusta (Fieber)

Fieber (1848) recorded C. praeusta from Sitka and Unalaska, and Heidemann (1900) reported this species from Kodiak and Sitka. However, Hungerford (1948) noted that the Fieber (1848) records must be based on misidentified specimens that are probably C. alaskensis Hungerford. Hungerford (1948) listed the Fieber (1848) and Heidemann (1900) records under C. alaskensis and in fact listed specimens that he had examined from Kodiak (10.ix.1919 (Jas. S. Hine)) and Unalaska (26.viii.1937 (V.B. Scheffer)). Sailer (1952) also noted that Hungerford (1948) had shown that the earlier records of C. praeusta from Alaska actually referred to C. alaskensis. This was also noted by Polhemus et al. (1988). Hence, the Kiritshenko (1960) and Lattin (2008) reports of C. praeusta from Alaska must be disregarded, and this species removed from the list of Alaska Heteroptera.

Notes

Published as part of Scudder, G. G. E. & Sikes, D. S., 2014, Alaskan Heteroptera (Hemiptera): new records, associated data, and deletions, pp. 373-381 in Zootaxa 3852 (3) on page 379, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3852.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/230536

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Biodiversity

Family
Corixidae
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Taxon rank
family

References

  • Fieber, F. X. (1848) Synopsis aller bisher in Europa entdeckten Arten der Gattung Corisa. Bulletin de la Societ Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 21, 505 - 539.
  • Heidemann, O. (1900) Papers from the Harriman Alaska Expedition XIII. Entomological results (7): Heteroptera. Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 2, 503 - 506.
  • Hungerford, H. B. (1948) The Corixidae of the Western Hemisphere (Hemiptera): University of Kansas Science Bulletin, 32, 1 - 827.
  • Sailer, R. I. (1952) Circumpolar distribution of water boatmen (Hemiptera: Corixidae). The Canadian Entomologist, 84, 280. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.4039 / ent 84280 - 9
  • Polhemus, J. T., Froeschner, R. C. & Polhemus, D. A. (1988) Family Corixidae Leach, 1815. The Water Boatmen. In: Henry, T. J. & Froeschner, R. C. (Eds.), Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. E. J. Brill, Leiden, pp. 93 - 118.
  • Kiritshenko, A. N. (1960) Heteroptera of the eastern sector of Arctic Eurasia. Entomologischeskoe Obozvenie, 39, 617 - 628. [in Russian]
  • Lattin, J. D. (2008) Catalog of the Hemiptera: Heteroptera of Alaska. Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331 - 2902, 37 pp.