Species Anisops nasutus Fieber, 1851

Museums

Regional Maps

• Anisops nasuta Fieber, F.X. 1851. Rhynchotographien, drei monographische Abhandlungen. Abhandlungen der Böhmischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Prague 5 7: 425-486 [484].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB ♂, locality unknown.
• Anisops fieberi Kirkaldy, G.W. 1901. Miscellanea Rhynchotalia. The Entomologist 34(452): 5-6 [5] [unnecessary replacement name for Anisops nivea (Fabricius, 1775): Fieber, 1851, originally proposed for a misidentified specimen].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (not in ZMB), India and Sulawesi (as Celebes), Indonesia.
• Anisops protracta Liu, G.-q. & Zheng, L.-y. 1990. A new species and a new record of Notonectidae from China (Hemiptera). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 15: 349-351 [351].

  Type data:

   Holotype NKMU ♂, Nanning, Guangxi, China.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Esaki, T. 1926. Verzeichniss der Hemiptera-Heteroptera der Insel Formosa. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 24: 136-189 [188] (synonymy of Anisops fieberi; also Anisops kuroiwae Matsumura, 1915 as junior synonym, not followed in this work)
• Polhemus, J.T. 1994. New synonymy in the genus Anisops Spinola (Notonectidae: Heteroptera). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 96: 579 (synonymy of Anisops protracta)

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Barron River, Fraser Is., Moore Is., Townsville, Torres Strait Ils (Thursday Is.), WA—Marilana, North West Cape, Tambrey, NT—Darwin, Katherine, also ?(Palaearctic Region—China), Oriental Region—Indonesia (Sulawesi), India, Sri Lanka, Micronesia—Friendly Is., Guam, Melanesia—Papua New Guinea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Carnarvon (CAR), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

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.

Breddin, G. 1901. Die Hemipteren von Celebes ein beitrag zur faunistik der insel. Abhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Halle 24: 1-213 1 pl. [103] (biology)

Brooks, G.T. 1951. A revision of the genus Anisops (Notonectidae: Hemiptera). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 34: 301-519 [416] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement Anisops niveus ogasawarensis Matsumura, 1915 as junior synonym of Anisops nasutus)

Distant, W.L. 1906. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota (Heteroptera—Homoptera). London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 3 xiv 503 pp. [153]

Dover, C. 1928. Notes on a collection of aquatic Rhynchota from the Buitenzorg Museum. Treubia 10: 65-72 [71]

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. [76]

Hale, H.M. 1923. Studies in Australian aquatic Hemiptera. No. II. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 2: 397-424 pls X-XI [400-401, fig. 363] (description, habitus)

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 [17] (note, distribution)

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1904. Über Notonectiden (Hemiptera). Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 23: 93-135 [116, 132] (taxonomy)

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 [433, 440, figs 23-28] (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, 145, 168-171, fig. 58] (list, description, separate species)

Matsumura, S. 1906. Die Hemipteren fauna von Riukiu (Okinawa). Transactions of the Sapporo Natural History Society 1: 15-38 [28] (misidentification as Anisops niveus)

Nieser, N. & Chen, P. 1991. Naucoridae, Nepidae and Notonectidae, mainly from Sulawesi and Pulau Buton (Indonesia). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 134: 47-67 [57] (Oriental Region, Melanesia, Australia)

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] (list)

Wu, C.F. 1933. A preliminary check list of Hemiptera heretofore recorded from Kwantung Province South China. Lingnan Science Journal Suppl. 12: 203-231 [213] (catalogue)

Wu, C.F. 1935. Catalogus insectorum Sinesium (Catalog of Chinese Insects). Fan Memorial Institute of Biology, Peiping 2: 1-634 [575] (catalogue)

 

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