Species Aquarius antigone (Kirkaldy, 1899)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Gerris antigone Kirkaldy, G.W. 1899. Aquatic Rhynchota in the collection of the Royal Museum of Belgium. Notes and descriptions. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 43: 505-510 [507].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) RIB (ex Van Volxem coll.) ♂ ♀ (Institution uncertain), Bowen (as Port Denison), QLD.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Cania Gorge, Carnarvon, Gordonvale, Rathdowney, Yeppoon, NSW—Hay, Wentworth Falls, ACT—Murrumbidgee River (new records).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, lentic freshwater, predator, territorial.

Extra Ecological Information

Semiaquatic, from streams.

 

General References

Andersen, N.M. 1990. Phylogeny and taxonomy of water striders, genus Aquarius Schellenberg (Insecta, Hemiptera, Gerridae), with a new species from Australia. Steenstrupia 16: 37-81 [52, figs 16-25] (description)

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.

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 [11] (description)

Hungerford, H.B. 1934. Concerning some aquatic and semiaquatic Hemiptera from Australia. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 29: 68-73 [70] (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 [370] (description, checklist)

Polhemus, D.A. & Polhemus, J.T. 1994. A new species of Aquarius (Heteroptera: Gerridae) from Timor, with notes on Timorese zoogeography. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 96: 54-62 (phylogeny, biogeography)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2012		05-Dec-2012	MODIFIED
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20-Oct-2010		06-Jun-2012	MODIFIED
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