Genus Rheumatometra Kirkaldy, 1902

Museums

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• Rheumatometra Kirkaldy, G.W. 1902. Miscellanea Rhynchotalia.—No. 5. The Entomologist 35(474): 280-284, 315-316 [281].

  Type species:

   Rheumatometra philarete Kirkaldy, 1902 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Andersen, N.M. 1982. The Semiaquatic Bugs (Hemiptera, Gerromorpha). Phylogeny, adaptations, biogeography and classification. Denmark : Scandinavian Science Press Entomonograph Vol. 3 455 pp. [184, 195, 364, 366, 383, 392] (taxonomy, biology)

Andersen, N.M. & Weir, T.A. 1998. Australian water striders of the subfamilies Trepobatinae and Rhagadotarsinae (Hemiptera: Gerridae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 12: 509-544 [517] (redescription)

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.

Esaki, T. 1926. The water-striders of the subfamily Halobatinae in the Hungarian National Museum. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 23: 117-164 [142] (taxonomy)

Matsuda, R. 1957. Morphology of the thoracic structures and their taxonomic significance in the Gerridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 30: 66-70 [68] (morphology)

Matsuda, R. 1960. Morphology, evolution and a classification of the Gerridae (Hemiptera-Heteroptera). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 41: 25-632 [364] (description)

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