Species Anisops elstoni Brooks, 1951

Museums

Regional Maps

• Anisops elstoni Brooks, G.T. 1951. A revision of the genus Anisops (Notonectidae: Hemiptera). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 34: 301-519 [326].

  Type data:

   Holotype KU ♂, Myponga, SA.
  Paratype(s) KU 5♂ 8♀; MCZ 3♂ 3♀.
• Anisops depressa Lansbury, I. 1962. Notes on the genus Anisops in Bishop Museum (Hem.: Notonectidae). Pacific Insects 4: 141-151 [145].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM ♀, Wisselmeren, Tage Lake, Irian Jaya, Indonesia (as Dutch Neu Guinea).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lansbury, I. 1978. Comments on the species concept in some Australian Anisops Spinola (Hemiptera: Notonectidae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 39: 101-115 [106] (also possible synonymy of Anisops capitata Lansbury, 1968, not followed in this work)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Brisbane, Fraser Is., Somerset, NSW—Dorrigo, Badgery's Creek, Katoomba, Mittagong, Narooma, Sydney, also Palaearctic Region—China, Oriental Region—Vietnam, Melanesia—New Guinea, Solomon Ils.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Kanmantoo (KAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Aquatic, arthropod-feeder, diurnal, lentic freshwater, predator, volant.

 

General References

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.

Lansbury, I. 1964. The genus Anisops in Australia (Hemiptera: Notonectidae) Part I. Journal of the Entomological Society of Queensland 3: 52-65 [52, 58] (list, description, distribution)

Lansbury, I. 1969. The genus Anisops in Australia (Hemiptera-Heteroptera: Notonectidae). Journal of Natural History 3: 433-458 [434] (key)

Lansbury, I. 1975. Notes on additions, changes and the distribution of the Australian water-bug fauna (Hemiptera-Heteroptera). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 36: 17-23 [19] (distribution)

Sweeney, A.W. 1965. The distribution of the Notonectidae (Hemiptera) in south-eastern Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 90: 87-94 [88, 91, fig. 2b] (key, distribution)

 

History of changes

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