Notonecta indica Linnaeus 1771
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Notonecta indica Linnaeus, 1771
Geographical distribution: southern and eastern United States in the Nearctic region to Colombia in the Neotropical region; introduced into the Hawaiian Islands.
Material from Cuba: La Habana, 25.I.1932, P. J. Bermudez leg. (KU). La Habana, no date, Baker leg. (USNM). Soledad, 4.IV.1925, J. G. Meyers leg. (KU). Littletown, 1.I.1878, no collector (KU) [no specimen number given for all above] (Hungerford 1933). Holguín, Baire, El Cayo, 21.III.1973, Cuban-Romanian Biospeological Expedition leg., 1 ɗ, 1 nymph (SIB) (Nieser 1977). Río Givara, La Victoria, 17.VII.2001, Hernández & Bauta leg., 11 specimens (NHMC); Río Cacoyoguin, La Lima, 4.II.2002, Hernández & Bauta leg., 2 specimens (NHMC); Puente Blanco, 20.VI.2002, Hernández & Bauta leg., 1 specimen (NHMC) (Hernández and Bauta 2003). Camaguey, Río Máximo, Criadero de cocodrilos (27 Km del nacimiento), 18.II.2002, O. Bello leg., 3 specimens (NHMC); 12.III.2003, O. Bello leg., 1 specimen (NHMC) (Bello 2004). Granma, Parque Nacional La Bayamesa, El Zapato, 3.II.2004, P. López leg., 1 specimen (NHMC); Río Manguito, 3.II.2004, P. López leg., 8 specimens (NHMC) (López et al. 2004). Sancti Spiritus, Reserva Ecológica Banao, Arroyo El Regalo, 6.II.2005, P. López leg., 3 specimens (NHMC) (López et al. 2006). Santiago de Cuba, Río Mariano, Dos palmas, La Guadalupe, 30.XI.2005, Y. S. Megna leg., 2 specimens (NHMC); La Cubana, Laguna temporal-1, 2.XII.2005, Y. S. Megna leg., 11 specimens (NHMC); Campo Rico, Arroyo-3, 6.XII.2005, Y. S. Megna leg., 1 specimen (NHMC); Río Cauto, Palma Soriano, El Sitio, 1.VI.2005, Y. S. Megna leg., 2 specimens (NHMC) (Deler-Hernández et. al 2007). Guantánamo, La Belleza, no date, G. Álvarez leg., 1 specimen (NHMC) (Álvarez 2007).
Habitat: very common in Cuba, inhabiting ponds, lakes, marshes, and river pools up to 600 m above sealevel. Alayo (1967, 1974) mentioned examining specimens from all Cuban provinces, without detailing the distribution of the species throughout the island.
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- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.197138 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/8B29F90FFF8AFF8AAC78FFB2FFD9B847 (URL)
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- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/77108177FF98FF99ACEFF9ADFD14BA60 (URL)
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- https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/47752/taxon/77108177FF98FF99ACEFF9ADFD14BA60.taxon (URL)
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- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Family
- Notonectidae
- Genus
- Notonecta
- Species
- indica
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- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Notonecta indica Linnaeus, 1771 sec. Riviaux, Moreira & López, 2010
References
- Hungerford, H. B. (1933) The genus Notonecta of the World (Notonectidae - Hemiptera). University of Kansas Science Bulletin, 21, 5 - 195.
- Nieser, N. (1977) Aquatic and semiaquatic Heteroptera from Cuba. Resultats des Expeditions Biospeleologiques Cubano-Romaines a Cuba, 2, 355 - 360.
- Hernandez, D. & Bauta, Y. (2003) Caracterizacion de la macrofauna dulceacuicola de los rios Gibara y Cacoyuguin (Holguin). Unpublished dissertation, Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba.
- Bello, O. (2004) Caracterizacion ecologica de la macrofauna del Rio Maximo. Unpublished dissertation, Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba.
- Lopez, P., Naranjo, C., Fernandez, J., Gonzalez-Lazo, D. D., Trapero, A. & Perez, J. (2004) Insectos acuaticos del Parque Nacional " La Bayamesa ", Cuba. Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa, 35, 225 - 231.
- Lopez, P., Gonzalez-Lazo, D. D., Naranjo, C. (2006) Lista de insectos acuaticos de la Reserva Ecologica " Alturas de Banao ", Sancti Spiritus, Cuba (Insecta). Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa, 38, 201 - 204.
- Deler-Hernandez, A., Megna, Y. S., Gonzalez-Lazo, D. D. & Torres, C. N. C. (2007) Insectos acuaticos y areas prioritarias para la conservacion en la cuenca alta del Rio Cauto (Santiago de Cuba, Cuba). Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa, 40, 451 - 461.
- Alvarez, G. (2007) Caracterizacion de la macrofauna de invertebrados y analisis de la calidad del agua del Rio Guantanamo: Guantanamo. Unpublished dissertation, Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba.
- Alayo, P. D. (1967) Catalogo de la fauna de Cuba. XVI. Los hemipteros acuaticos de Cuba. Trabajos de Divulgacion (Museo Felipe Poey, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba), 38, 1 - 68.
- Alayo, P. D. (1974) Los hemipteros acuaticos de Cuba. Torreia (Nueva Serie), 36, 9 - 64.