Species Anisops gratus Hale, 1923

Museums

Regional Maps

• Anisops gratus Hale, H.M. 1923. Studies in Australian aquatic Hemiptera. No. II. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 2: 397-424 pls X-XI [413].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♂, Broken Hill, NSW.
  Paratype(s) SAMA 3♂ 7♀ (3 specimens sex unknown); KU 2♂ 4♀.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Keeroongooloo Station, Thargomindah, NSW—Sydney, Nyngan, VIC—Melbourne, near Geelong, near Warrambine Creek, SA—Myrtle Springs, WA—Marillana, NT—Hart Range.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mulga Lands (ML), Pilbara (PIL), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP)

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.

Brooks, G.T. 1951. A revision of the genus Anisops (Notonectidae: Hemiptera). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 34: 301-519 [352, pl. 12, fig. 31] (description)

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

Lansbury, I. 1969. The genus Anisops in Australia (Hemiptera-Heteroptera: Notonectidae). Journal of Natural History 3: 433-458 [434, 448, figs 49-54] (description)

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)

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 [145] (list)

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. 2c] (key, distribution)

 

History of changes

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20-Oct-2010		06-Jun-2012	MODIFIED
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