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Gerridae

Description

Check-list of Gerridae recorded from Bhutan with reference of first record

Subfamily Gerrinae:

Gerris (Macrogerris) gracilicornis (Horváth, 1879) (Andersen, unpublished catalogue) Limnogonus (Limnogonus) nitidus (Mayr, 1865) (present study) Neogerris parvulus (Stål, 1860) (present study)

Subfamily Eotrechinae:

Onychotrechus jaechi sp.n. (present study)

Chimarrhometra sp. (present study)

Subfamily Ptilomerinae:

Ptilomera (Proptilomera) himalayensis Hungerford & Matsuda, 1958 (present study) Ptilomera (Ptilomera) laticaudata (Hardwicke, 1825) (present study)

Subfamily Halobatinae:

Metrocoris compar (Buchanan–White, 1883) (Chen & Nieser 1993; confirmed by present study) Metrocoris nepalensis Distant, 1910 (present study)

Notes

Published as part of Zettel, Herbert & Duc, Tran Anh, 2007, On Gerridae (Insecta: Heteroptera) from Bhutan, with description of a new species of Onychotrechus Kirkaldy, 1903, pp. 43-49 in Zootaxa 1467 on page 48, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.176609

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Gerridae
Taxon rank
family

References

  • Horvath, G. (1879) Hemipteres recueillis au Japon par M. Gripenberg. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, 22, cviii - cx.
  • Mayr, G. L. (1865) Diagnosen neuer Hemipteren II. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 15, 429 - 446.
  • Stal, C. (1860) Hemiptera. Species novas descripsit. Kongliga svenska fregattens Eugenies resa omkring jorden under befal af C. A. Virgin aren 1851 - 1853. 2 (Zoologi 1. Insekter), Norstedt & Soner, Stockholm, 219 - 298.
  • Hungerford, H. B. & Matsuda, R. (1958) A new primitive Ptilomera from the Himalayas and other notes (Gerridae, Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, 53, 117 - 123.
  • Hardwicke, T. (1825) Description of Cermatia longicornis and of three new insects from Nepaul. Transactions of the Linnean Society, 14, 131 - 136.
  • Buchanan - White, F. (1883) Report on the pelagic Hemiptera. Voyage of Challenger, Reports, Zoology, 7, 1 - 82.
  • Chen, P. P. & Nieser, N. (1993) A taxonomic revision of the Oriental water strider genus Metrocoris Mayr (Hemiptera, Gerridae). Part I & II. Steenstrupia 19, 1 - 43, 45 - 82.
  • Distant, W. L. (1910) Some undescribed Gerrinae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (8) 5, 140 - 153.