Species Halobates (Halobates) princeps White, 1883

Museums

Regional Maps

• Halobates princeps White, F.B. 1883. Report on the pelagic Hemiptera procured during the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger in the years 1873–1876. pp. 1-82 in Thompson, C.W. & Murray, J. (eds). Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873–1876. Vol. 7. Zoology. London : H.M.S.O. [44].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Celebes Sea.
• Halobates (Halobates) ashmorensis Malipatil, M.B. 1988. Two new species of Halobates Eschscholtz (Hemiptera: Gerridae) from Australia. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 27: 157-160 [158].

  Type data:

   Holotype NTM ♂, Ashmore Reef, 12º14´S 122º59´E, WA.
  Paratype(s) NTM ♀.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Esaki, T. 1928. Aquatic and semi-aquatic Heteroptera. pp. 67–80 in, Insects of Samoa and other Samoan terrestrial Arthropoda. Part II. Hemiptera. Fasc. 2. London : William Clowes & Sons Ltd. [74] (synonymy with Halobates alluaudi Bergroth, 1893 and Halobates matsumurai Esaki, 1924)
• Polhemus, J.T. & Polhemus, D.A. 1991. Three new species of marine water-striders from the Australasian region, with notes on other species (Gerridae: Halobatinae, Trepobatinae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 39: 1-13 [7]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Lizard Is. (Watsons Bay), WA—Ashmore Reef, also Oriental Region—Philippines, Melanesia—New Guinea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld, WA: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)

Other Regions

Territory of Ashmore & Cartier Islands

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, oceanic, pelagic, predator.

Extra Ecological Information

Semiaquatic.

 

General References

Andersen, N.M. 1991. Marine insects: genital morphology, phylogeny and evolution of sea skaters, genus Halobates (Hemiptera: Gerridae). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 103: 21-60 [45] (synonymy)

Andersen, N.M. & Weir, T.A. 1994. The sea skaters, genus Halobates Eschscholtz (Hemiptera: Gerridae), of Australia: taxonomy, phylogeny and zoogeography. Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 861-909 [902] (description)

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.

Cheng, L. & Schmitt, P.D. 1982. Marine insects of the genera Halobates and Hermatobates (Heteroptera) from neuston tows around Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 33: 1109-1112 (Lizard Is.)

Herring, J.L. 1961. The genus Halobates (Hemiptera: Gerridae). Pacific Insects 3: 223-305 [243, 267] (key, description)

Izzard, R.J. 1936. The Hemiptera of Christmas Island. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10 17: 577-600 [589] (Christmas Is.)

Kirby, W.F. 1900. Hemiptera. pp. 127-129 in Andrews, C.W. (ed.). A Monograph of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean): physical features and geology; with descriptions of the fauna and flora by numerous contributors. London : British Museum (Natural History) xiii 337 pp. [129] (Christmas Is.)

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1900. On some Rhynchota, principally from New Guinea (Amphibocorisae and Notonectidae). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 40: 804-810 [805] (description)

Usinger, R.L. 1938. Biological notes on the pelagic water striders (Halobates) of the Hawaiian Islands, with description of a new species from Waikiki (Hemiptera: Gerridae). Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 10: 77-84 [83] (list, synonymy)

 

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