Species Halobates (Halobates) sericeus Eschscholtz, 1822

Museums

Regional Maps

• Halobates sericeus Eschscholtz, J.F. 1822. Entomographien. Berlin : G. Reimer Vol. 1 (erste Lieferung) 128 pp. [108].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMM ♂ (Herring, J.L. 1961. The genus Halobates (Hemiptera: Gerridae). Pacific Insects 3: 223–305 [252] reports type is in the University of Dorpat, Estonia), N Pacific.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Lizard Is., Low Is., Point Cartwright, Stradbroke Is., NSW—Lord Howe Is. (new records), also Pacific Ocean.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, oceanic, pelagic, predator.

Extra Ecological Information

Semiaquatic.

 

General References

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 [898] (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.

Herring, J.L. 1961. The genus Halobates (Hemiptera: Gerridae). Pacific Insects 3: 223-305 [252] (description)

Malipatil, M.B. 1988. Two new species of Halobates Eschscholtz (Hemiptera: Gerridae) from Australia. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 27: 157-160 [157] (distribution)

 

History of changes

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