Genus Diplonychus Laporte, 1833

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• Diplonychus Laporte, F.L. (Compte de Castelnau) 1833. Essai d'une classification systématique de l'ordre des Hémiptères (Hémiptères Héteroptères, Latr.). Magasin de Zoologie (Paris) 2: 17-75, Supplement: 76-88 [17].

  Type species:

   Nepa rustica Fabricius, 1775 by monotypy.
• Sphaerodema Laporte, F.L. (Compte de Castelnau) 1833. Essai d'une classification systématique de l'ordre des Hémiptères (Hémiptères Héteroptères, Latr.). Magasin de Zoologie (Paris) 2: 17-75, Supplement: 76-88 [17] [first introduced as a subgenus of Diplonychus Laporte, 1833].

  Type species:

   Diplonychus (Sphaerodema) rotundatus Laporte, 1833 (=Nepa annulata Fabricius, 1781) by monotypy.
• Appasus Amyot, C.J.B. & Audinet-Serville, J.G. 1843. Histoire Naturelle des Insects. Hémiptères. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Rue Hautefeuille 10 B13 676 pp. [430].

  Type species:

   Appasus natator Amyot & Serville, 1843 (=Naucoris nepoides Fabricius, 1803) by monotypy.
• Atomya Spinola, M.M. 1850. Tavola sinottica dei generi spettanti alla classe degli insetti artroidignati, Hemiptera, Linn. Latr. — Rhyngota, Fab. — Rhynchota, Burm. Memorie di Matematica e di Fisica della Societa Italiana delle Scienze. Modena 25: 43-178 [48] [originally described without included species].

  Type species:

   Diplonychus (Sphaerodema) rotundatus Laporte, 1832 (=Nepa annulata Fabricius, 1781) by subsequent designation, see 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 [6].
• Amyotella Spinola, M.M. 1850. Tavola sinottica dei generi spettanti alla classe degli insetti artroidignati, Hemiptera, Linn. Latr. — Rhyngota, Fab. — Rhynchota, Burm. Memorie di Matematica e di Fisica della Societa Italiana delle Scienze. Modena 25: 43-178 [49] [junior objective synonym of Appasus Amyot & Serville].

  Type species:

   Appasus natator Amyot & Serville, 1843 (=Naucoris nepoides Fabricius, 1803) by subsequent designation, see Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. List of the genera of the pagiopodous Hemiptera-Heteroptera, with their type species, from 1758 to 1904 (and also of the aquatic and semi-aquatic Trochalopoda). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32: 117-156a, 156b [152].
• Cyclodema Dufour, L. 1863. Essai monographique sur les Bélostomides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 4 3: 373-400 [397] [unnecessary nom. nov. for Sphaerodema Laporte, 1832; junior homonym of Cyclodema Laporte, 1840 (Coleoptera)].
• Nervinops Dufour, L. 1863. Essai monographique sur les Bélostomides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 4 3: 373-400 [398] [unnecessary nom. nov. for Diplonychus Laporte, 1833].
• Nectocoris Mayr, G. 1871. Die Belostomiden. Monographisch bearbeitet. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 21: 399-440 [432].

  Type species:

   Nectocoris stali Mayr, 1871 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Burmeister, H. 1835. Handbuch der Entomologie. Zweiter Band: II Ordnung Rhynchota. Berlin : Theod. Ehr. Friedr. Enslin iv 400 pp. [194] (synonymy of Sphaerodema)
• 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 [6] (for synonymical history of all available names)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Afrotropical, Oriental and Palaearctic regions; Melanesia.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC)

Distribution References

General References

Amyot, C.J.B. & Audinet-Serville, J.G. 1843. Histoire Naturelle des Insects. Hémiptères. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Rue Hautefeuille 10 B13 676 pp. [436] (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.

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1903. Current notes.—No. 2. The Entomologist 36(487): 310-315 [311] (status)

Lauck, D.R. & Menke, A.S. 1961. The higher classification of the Belostomatidae (Hemiptera). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 54: 644-657 [646, 649] (key, synonymy, description)

Mayr, G. 1863. Hemipterologische studien. Die Belostomiden. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13: 339-365 [340-342, 345, 349, 361] (description)

Mayr, G. 1866. Hemiptera. Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wällerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Zweiter Band. I. Abtheilung. B. Wien : Karl Gerold's Sohn 1-204 pls I-V. [187]

Mayr, G. 1871. Die Belostomiden. Monographisch bearbeitet. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 21: 399-440 [435]

Torre Bueno, J.R. de la 1907. Diplonychus, Laporte (=Hydrocyrius Spinola), and its relation to other belostomatid genera. The Canadian Entomologist 39: 333-341 (status)

 

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