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Notonecta viridis Delcourt
Description
Notonecta viridis (Delcourt)
(Fig. 7 B)
Material examined. Station 35, 29 -x-2013, 1 ♂; 27-xii-2013, 1♂; station 36, 28 -vi-2013, 1 ♂; 24-vii-2013, 1♂; 21- viii-2013, 2♂; 04-ix-2013, 2♂; station 44, 16 -vii-2013, 2 ♂1♀; 02-ix-2013, 1♀.
Comments. The specimens were collected in lentic and lotic habitats associated with aquatic vegetation up to 368 m asl. The species was first recorded from Tunisia by Omer-Cooper (1930) in southern (Teboulbou, Gabès).
Distribution. This species has an Euro-Siberian distribution extending to India (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 167, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3981.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/239818
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Notonectidae
- Genus
- Notonecta
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Delcourt
- Species
- viridis
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Omer-Cooper, J. (1930) Notes on the fresh-water fauna of Southern Tunisia. The Entomologist, 63, 251 - 255.
- 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.