Subspecies Limnogonus (Limnogonus) fossarum skusei (Torre-Bueno, 1926)
- Limnometra skusei Torre-Bueno, J.R. de la 1926. Limnometra skusei: a new name. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 21: 129 [129] [nom. nov. for
Hydrometra australis Skuse, 1893]. - Hydrometra australis Skuse, F.A.A. 1893. Notes on Australian aquatic Hemiptera. (No. 1). Records of the Australian Museum 2: 42-45 pl. xi [42] [junior homonym of
Hydrometra lineata australis Say, 1832].Type data:
Holotype AM ♀, Sydney, NSW.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
QLD—Ayr, Brisbane, Gordonvale, Stradbroke Is., Horn Islet, NSW—Pilbara, NT—Groote Eylandt, Darwin (new records), also Oriental Region—Indonesia east of Sumatra, Melanesia—Fiji, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Ils., Vanuatu, Polynesia—Cook Is., Samoa.
IBRA
NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Darwin Coastal (DAC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Aquatic, arthropod-feeder, lentic freshwater, lotic freshwater, predator, territorial.
Extra Ecological Information
In wet season marshes.
General References
Andersen, N.M. 1975. The Limnogonus and Neogerris of the Old World. Entomologica Scandinavica. Supplementum 7: 1-96 [36, figs, 54, 61-62, 71, 74-76, 86-89, 91-92] (description, extralimital distribution)
Dover, C. 1928. Notes on a collection of aquatic Rhynchota from the Buitenzorg Museum. Treubia 10: 65-72 [68] (description of
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. [71, figs 2e, f] (as part of
Hale, H.M. 1924. Aquatic Hemiptera from Groote Eylandt. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 2: 521-522 [522] (description, distribution)
Hale, H.M. 1925. Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. 44. The aquatic and semi-aquatic Hemiptera. Arkiv för Zoologi 17A(20): 1-19 [9] (description, habitus)
Hoffmann, W.E. 1930. A peculiar habit in the water-strider Rhagadotarsus kraepelini Breddin. Lingnan Science Journal 9: 321 (behaviour)
Hungerford, H.B. 1934. Concerning some aquatic and semiaquatic Hemiptera from Australia. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 29: 68-73 [70] (description, separate species)
Hungerford, H.B. & Matsuda, R. 1963. Aquatic and semiaquatic Hemiptera taken in Portuguese Timor by G.F. Gross of the South Australian Museum. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 14: 471-472 [471] (description, distribution)
Kirkaldy, G.W. 1908. A catalogue of the Hemiptera of Fiji. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 33: 345-391 pl. IV [367] (description, distribution)
Lundblad, O. 1933. Zur Kenntnis der aquatilen und semiaquatilen Hemipteren von Sumatra, Java und Bali auf Grund des Materials der Deutschen Limnologischen Sunda-Expedition, nebst Revision einiger anderer, indoaustralischer Arten. Archiv für Hydrobiologie 12: 1-195, 263-489 [374, 382] (description)
Matsuda, R. 1960. Morphology, evolution and a classification of the Gerridae (Hemiptera-Heteroptera). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 41: 25-632 [198] (description)
Polhemus, J.T. & Herring, J.L. 1970. Ergebnisse der Österreichischen Neukaledonien Expedition. Aquatic and semiaquatic Hemiptera. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 72: 179-187 [180] (description, distribution)
Usinger, R.L. 1946. Hemiptera Heteroptera of Guam. pp. 11–103 in, Insects of Guam, II. Bull. Bernice P. Bishop Mus. 189. [94] (description, distribution)
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