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Anisops sardeus subsp. sardeus Herrich-Schaeffer

Description

Anisops sardeus sardeus (Herrich-Schaeffer)

(Fig. 7A)

Material examined. Station 4, 17 -vii-2013,1♀; station 6, 28 -iii-2013, 1 ♂2♀; station 8, 25 -vii-2013, 1♀; station 13, 17 -vii-2013, 1♀; station 25, 24 -vii-2013, 1♀; 20-viii-2013, 2♂; station 32, 05 -ix-2013, 1 ♂1♀; station 34, 25 - vii-2013, 1♀; station 35, 27 -iii-2013, 3♀; 29-xi-2013, 2♀; 27-xii-2013, 2♂ 2♀; station 36, 28 -vi-2013, 1♀; station 48, 23 -v-2013, 1 ♂1♀; 19-vii-2013, 1♂; 22-viii- 2013,1♂1♀; station 49, 19 -vii-2013, 1 ♂2♀.

Comments. The specimens have been collected in both flowing and stagnant areas of rivers, at localities up to 131 m asl. It was first recorded from Tunisia by Ferrari (1884) under the name of Anisops producta Fieber.

Distribution. It is known from southern Europe, Middle East, northern and tropical Africa extending to India and Burma (Polhemus 1995; Carapezza 1997; Fent et al. 2011).

Notes

Published as part of Slimani, Noura, Moulet, Pierre, Chen, Ping-Ping, Nieser, Nico, Pluot-Sigwalt, Dominique, Boumaïza, Moncef & Guilbert, Eric, 2015, Checklist, distribution, and a new record of Nepomorphan water bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in northern Tunisia, pp. 151-176 in Zootaxa 3981 (2) on page 165, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3981.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/239818

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Herrich-Schaeffer
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Notonectidae
Genus
Anisops
Species
sardeus
Taxon rank
subSpecies

References

  • Ferrari, P. M. (1884) Materiali per lo studio della fauna tunisina raccolti da G. e L. Doria. Rincoti. Annal del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, Serie 2, 1, 439 - 522.
  • Carapezza, A. (1997) Heteroptera of Tunisia. Naturalista Siciliano, Serie IV, 21 (Supplement A), 1 - 312.
  • Fent, M., Kment, P., Camur-Elipek, B. & Kirgiz, T. (2011) Annotated catalogue of Enicocephalomorpha, Dipsocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha, and Leptopodomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of Turkey, with new records. Zootaxa, 2856, 1 - 84.