Genus Cymatia Flor, 1860

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cymatia Flor, G. 1860. Die Rhynchoten Livlands in Systematischer Folge bescreiben. Erster Theil: Rhynchota frontirostria Zett. (Hemiptera Heteroptera Ast.). Archiv für die Naturkunde Liv-, Ehst-, und Kurlands. II Serie, Biologische Naturkunde (1860–1861). Dorpat : Carl Schulz 826 pp. [783] [first introduced as a subgenus of Corixa Geoffroy, 1762, as Corisa (Cymatia)].

  Type species:

   Sigara coleoptrata Fabricius, 1794 by subsequent designation, see Kirkaldy, G.W. 1899. On the nomenclature of the European subgenera of Corixa, Geoffr. (Rhynchota). The Entomologist 32: 252-253 [252].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

• Lansbury, I. 1983. Notes on the Australasian species of Cymatia Flor s.l. (Insecta, Heteroptera, Corixidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 107: 51-57 [55]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Palaearctic Region—Algeria, China, Europe, Russia; Oriental Region—India; Nearctic Region.

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Distribution References

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.

China, W.E. 1943. The Generic Names of British Insect. Prepared by the Committee on Generic Nomenclature of the Royal Entomological Society of London with the assistance of the Department of Entomology of the British Museum of Natural History. Part 8. The generic names of the British Hemiptera-Heteroptera, with a check list of the British species. London : Royal Entomological Society of London 211-342 pp. [283] (list)

Hungerford, H.B. 1947. A new species of Cymatia from Australia (Hemiptera, Corixidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 20: 154-157 [154] (distribution)

Hungerford, H.B. 1948. The Corixidae of the Western Hemisphere (Hemiptera). Kansas University Science Bulletin 32: 1-827 [99] (synonymy, description)

Jansson, A. 1982. Notes on some Corixidae (Heteroptera) from New Guinea and New Caledonia. Pacific Insects 24: 95-103 [96] (description, New Guinea)

Jansson, A. 1986. The Corixidae (Heteroptera) of Europe and some adjacent regions. Acta Entomologica Fennica 47: 1-94 [20] (description)

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1898. On the nomenclature of the European subgenera of Corixa, Geoffr. (Rhynchota). The Entomologist 31: 252-253 [252] (list)

Poisson, R. 1951. Ordre des Hétéroptères. (Heteroptera Latreille, 1810—Frontirostres Fallén, 1814). pp. 1657-1803 in Grassé, P.P. (ed.). Traité de Zoologie: Anatomie, Systématique, Biologie. Insectes supérieurs et Hémiptéroides. Paris : Masson & Cie Vol. 10. [1753] (distribution)

Polhemus, J.T., Froeschner, R.C. & Polhemus, D.A. 1988. Family Corixidae Leach, 1815: the water boatmen. pp. 93-118 in Henry, T.J. & Froeschner, R.C. (eds). Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. Leiden : E.J. Brill xix 958 pp. [118] (Nearctic Region)

Štys, P. & Jansson, A. 1988. Check-list of recent family-group and genus-group names of Nepomorpha (Heteroptera) of the world. Acta Entomologica Fennica 50: 1-44 [18] (list)

Usinger, R.L. 1963. Aquatic Hemiptera. pp. 182-228 in Usinger, R.L. (ed.). Aquatic Insects of California with keys to North American genera and California species. Berkeley : University of California Press. [191] (key)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
30-Nov-2012		30-Nov-2012	MODIFIED
15-Aug-2012		15-Aug-2012	MODIFIED
20-Oct-2010		06-Jun-2012	MODIFIED
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