Species Anisops occipitalis Breddin, 1905

Museums

Regional Maps

• Anisops occipitalis Breddin, G. 1905. Rhynchota Heteroptera aus Java, gesammelt von Prof. K. Kraepelin 1904. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg 22: 109-159 [152].

  Type data:

   Lectotype DEIB ♀, Buitenzorg, Java.
  Paralectotype(s) KU.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Brooks, G.T. 1951. A revision of the genus Anisops (Notonectidae: Hemiptera). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 34: 301-519 [345].
• Anisops ocularis Hale, H.M. 1923. Studies in Australian aquatic Hemiptera. No. II. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 2: 397-424 pls X-XI [412].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♂, Darwin, NT.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lansbury, I. 1969. The genus Anisops in Australia (Hemiptera-Heteroptera: Notonectidae). Journal of Natural History 3: 433-458 [433, 438, figs 18-22] (description)

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Barron River, WA—Prince Regent River Reserve, Wotjulum Mission, NT—Alice Springs, Darwin, also Oriental Region—Taiwan, Indonesia, Philippines, Melanesia—New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Darwin Coastal (DAC), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Northern Kimberley (NK), Wet Tropics (WT)

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 [344, 469, pl. 39 fig. 22] (separate species)

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

Lansbury, I. 1984. Some Nepomorpha (Corixidae, Notonectidae and Nepidae) (Hemiptera-Heteroptera) of north-west Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 108: 35-49 [39, figs 23-25] (description)

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, 158-260, fig. 154] (description, separate species)

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

 

History of changes

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