Species Cymatia (Cnethocymatia) nigra Hungerford, 1947

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

  Type data:

   Holotype KU ♀, Prince of Wales Is., Torres Strait Ils.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Torres Strait Ils, also Melanesia—Indonesia (Irian Jaya), Papua New Guinea.

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Aquatic, arthropod-feeder, detritivore, diurnal, lentic freshwater, lotic freshwater, 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.

Jaczewski, T. 1964. On Cymatia jaxartensis Kiritshenko, with some general notes on the genus Cymatia Flor (Heteroptera, Corixidae). Bulletin de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences. Série des Sciences Biologiques Sci. Biol. 11: 545-548 [546] (note)

Jansson, A. 1982. Notes on some Corixidae (Heteroptera) from New Guinea and New Caledonia. Pacific Insects 24: 95-103 [96-98] (nov. comb. as Cnethocymatia nigra, description, distribution)

 

History of changes

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20-Oct-2010		06-Jun-2012	MODIFIED
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