Species Austronepa angusta (Hale, 1924)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Curicta angusta Hale, H.M. 1924. Studies in Australian aquatic Hemiptera. No. III. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 2: 503-520 pls XXXIV-XXXV [508].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA I14601 ♂, Groote Eylandt, NT.
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA I14601 ♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Menke, A.S. & Strange, L.A. 1964. A new genus of Nepidae from Australia with notes on the higher classification of the family. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 75: 67-72 pl. VII [67].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC)

Ecological Descriptors

Aquatic, arthropod-feeder, lentic freshwater, piscivore, predator.

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.

De Carlo, J.A. 1968. Redescription and genital apparatus of the male of Austronepa angusta (Hale) (Hemiptera: Ranatridae). Physis (Buenos Aires) 27(75): 343-347 (male genitalia)

Lansbury, I. 1967. Comparative morphology of the male Australian Nepidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 641-649 [643, fig. 1] (description, male genitalia)

Menke, A.S. & Strange, L.A. 1964. A new genus of Nepidae from Australia with notes on the higher classification of the family. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 75: 67-72 pl. VII [67] (nov. comb. as Austronepa angusta)

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