Gerris (Gerris) costae subsp. sahlbergi Distant 1879
- 1. National Research Council of Italy, Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems (CNR-IRET), Via Madonna del Piano 10, I- 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Florence), Italy. & University of Florence, Natural History Museum, " La Specola ", Zoology, Via Romana 17, I- 50125 Florence, Italy.
- 2. University of Gujrat, Department of Zoology, Hafiz Hayat Campus, Jalalpur Jattan Road, Gujrat, Punjab 50700, Pakistan. sumera. afsheen @ uog. edu. pk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5291 - 2843 & University of Sialkot, 1 - km Main Daska Road, Sialkot, Punjab 51310, Pakistan.
- 3. University of Gujrat, Department of Zoology, Hafiz Hayat Campus, Jalalpur Jattan Road, Gujrat, Punjab 50700, Pakistan. sumera. afsheen @ uog. edu. pk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5291 - 2843
- 4. NARC-National Agricultural Research Centre, Park Road, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan.
Description
Gerris sahlbergi Distant 1879: 125.
Gerris costai mongoliensis Lansbury 1966: 211. Syn. Kanyukova 1982: 82.
Material examined. INDIA. Jammu and Kashmir. Kashmir division. Undefined district: Frisland, 8000 ft. [ca. 2440 m a.s.l.], 22. V. –9. VI.1952, 1 ♀ macr., leg. F.A. Kincl, det. F. Cianferoni 2020 (CFC); idem, 23 ♂, 31 ♀ macr., idem, det. P. Kment 2021 (NMPC); idem, 2 ♂, 2 ♀ macr., idem (CFC).
General distribution. This species is known from from Afghanistan, India (Kashmir), Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, and Russia (Siberia).
Remarks. The status and interpretation of the subspecies of G. costae (Herrich-Schäffer, 1850) are questionable (see e.g. Cianferoni 2019) because the diagnostic characters are ambiguous (see Cianferoni 2011 and Berchi et al. 2018 for further information). Also, since this subspecific taxon is not well-supported with molecular data (see e.g., Damgaard 2006), it could fall within the variability of the species, due to geographical variations of the populations. However, more research is needed to resolve this question. It is likely that this taxon could occur also in Pakistan (Azad Kashmir) and other regions in the northern part of the country.
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- Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4996.3.3 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Collection code
- CFC , NMPC , V , VI
- Family
- Gerridae
- Genus
- Gerris
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Distant
- Species
- sahlbergi
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- subSpecies
- Taxonomic concept label
- Gerris (Gerris) costae subsp. sahlbergi Distant, 1879 sec. Cianferoni, Saleem, Afsheen & Zia, 2021
References
- Distant, W. L. (1879) VII. Descriptions of new species of Hemiptera, collected by Dr. Stoliczka during the Forsyth Expedition to Kashgar in 1873 - 74. Transactions of The Royal Entomological Society of London, 27, 121 - 126. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1879. tb 01981. x
- Lansbury, L. (1966) The aquatic and semi-aquatic Hemiptera-Heteroptera of the Mongolian-German biological expedition, 1964. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 42, 211 - 218.
- Kanyukova, E. V. (1982) Water-striders (Heteroptera, Gerridae) of the fauna of me USSR. - Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instilllta. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, 105 (1981), 62 - 93. [in Russian]
- Cianferoni, F. (2019) Review of the aquatic Hemiptera from Cephalonia, with a checklist for the Ionian Islands, Greece (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha, Nepomorpha, Leptopodomorpha). Zootaxa, 4576 (1), 46 - 60. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4576.1.2
- Cianferoni, F. (2011) Notes on Gerromorpha, Nepomorpha and Leptopodomorpha from Sardinia (Hemiptera, Heteroptera). In: Nardi, G., Whitmore, D., Bardiani, M., Birtele, D., Mason, F., Spada, L. & Cerretti, P. (Eds.), Biodiversity of Marganai and Montimannu (Sardinia). Research in the framework of the ICP Forests network. Conservazione Habitat Invertebrati 5. Cierre Edizioni, Sommacampagna, Verona, pp. 255 - 268.
- Berchi, G. M., Cianferoni, F., Csabai, Z., Damgaard, J., Olosutean, H., Ilie, D. M., Boda, P. & Kment, P. (2018) Water striders (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha: Gerridae) of Romania with an update on the distribution of Gerris gibbifer and G. maculatus in southeastern Europe. Zootaxa, 4433 (3), 491 - 519. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4433.3.6
- Damgaard, J. (2006) Phylogeny and mtDNA phylogeography of two widespread European pond skater species (Hemiptera- Heteroptera: Gerridae: Gerris Fabricius). Insect Systematics and Evolution, 37, 335 - 350. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 187631206788838554