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Species Mesovelia vittigera Horváth, 1895
- Mesovelia vittigera Horváth, G. 1895. Hémiptères nouveaux d'Europe et des pays limitrophes. Revue d'Entomologie (Caen) 14: 152-165 [160].
Type data:
Syntype(s) MNH, Cairo and Abukir, Egypt. - Mesovelia orientalis Kirkaldy, G.W. 1901. On some Rhynchota, principally from New Guinea, (Amphibicorisae and Notonectidae). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 2 20: 804-810 [808].
Type data:
Holotype BPBM, Padan Panjan, Sumatra, Indonesia. - Mesovelia proxima Schouteden, H. 1905. [Descriptions] in Bergroth, E. & Schouteden, H. Note sur les Hémiptères recueillis à Kinchassa par M. Waelbroeck. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 49: 379-389 [388].
Type data:
Syntype(s) RGMC ♂ ♀, Kinchassa (and possibly Katanga), Zaire (as Congo belge).
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Horváth, G. 1915. Monographia des Mesoveliides. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 13: 535-556 [551]
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Afrotropical (including Mascarene) and Oriental regions, Micronesia, Polynesia—Samoa.
Other Regions
Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater
Ecological Descriptors
Arthropod-feeder, lentic freshwater, predator, tropical.
General References
Andersen, N.M. & Polhemus, J.T. 1980. Four new genera of Mesoveliidae (Hemiptera, Gerromorpha) and the phylogeny and classification of the family. Entomologica Scandinavica 11: 369-392 [390, 390] (list; list)
Andersen, N.M. & Weir, T.A. 2004. Australian Water Bugs. Their Biology and Identification (Hemiptera-Heteroptera, Gerromorpha & Nepomorpha). Entomonographen Denmark : Apollo Books Vol. 14 344 pp. [70, 327] (key; checklist)
Carver, M., Gross, G.F. & Woodward, T.E. 1991. Hemiptera (bugs, leafhoppers, cicadas, aphids, scale insects, etc.) [with contributions by Cassis, G., Evans, J.W., Fletcher, M.J., Hill, L., Lansbury, I., Malipatil, M.B., Monteith, G.B., Moulds, M.S., Polhemus, J.T., Slater, J.A., Štys, P., Taylor, K.L., Weir, T.A. & Williams, D.J.]. pp. 429-509 in CSIRO (ed.). The Insects of Australia. A textbook for students and research workers. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press Vol. 1 xiii 542 pp. [482] (note)
Horváth, G. 1929. General Catalogue of the Hemiptera. Fascicle II. Mesoveliidae. Northampton : Smith College viii 24 pp. [6] (catalogue)
Malipatil, M.B. & Monteith, M.B. 1983. One new genus and four new species of terrestrial Mesoveliidae (Hemiptera: Gerromorpha) from Australia and New Caledonia. Australian Journal of Zoology 31: 943-955 [943]
Polhemus, D.A. 1993. The Heteroptera of Aldabra Atoll and nearby Islands, Western Indian Ocean, Part 2. Freshwater Heteroptera (Insecta): Corixidae, Notonectidae, Veliidae, Gerridae and Mesoveliidae. Atoll Research Bulletin 301: 1-16 [7] (distribution)
Polhemus, J.T. & Polhemus, D.A. 2000. The genus Mesovelia Mulsant & Rey in New Guinea (Heteroptera: Mesoveliidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 108: 205-230 [226] (redescription; Papua New Guinea)
History of changes
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| 05-Dec-2012 | 05-Dec-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 15-Aug-2012 | 15-Aug-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 20-Oct-2010 | 06-Jun-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |