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Cercotmetus brevipes Montandon 1909

Description

Cercotmetus brevipes Montandon, 1909

Material examined. – Stream near road linking Padang Gaong Rd to Makam Mahsuri Rd: 1 male (macropterous), HZL9.

Distribution. – From northeastern India and southern China to Java, Borneo, and the Philippines (Lansbury, 1973). Lansbury (1973) records this species from “Telaga Pabila” a place which we were unable to locate, but may be in Malaysia. Otherwise, this is the first record from Malaysia.

Notes

Published as part of Zettel, Herbert & Tran, A. D., 2009, First Inventory Of The Water Bugs (Heteroptera: Nepomorpha: Gerromorpha) Of Langkawi Island, Kedah, Malaysia, pp. 279-295 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 57 (2) on page 281, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342032

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
HZL
Material sample ID
HZL9
Scientific name authorship
Montandon
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Nepidae
Genus
Cercotmetus
Species
brevipes
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Cercotmetus brevipes Montandon, 1909 sec. Zettel & Tran, 2009

References

  • Lansbury, I., 1973. A review of the genus Cercotmetus Amyot & Serville, 1843 (Hemiptera-Heteroptera: Nepidae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 116: 83 - 106.