Species Diplonychus eques (Dufour, 1863)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Appasus eques Dufour, L. 1863. Essai monographique sur les Bélostomides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 4 3: 373-400 [394].

  Type data:

   Holotype NHRM ?♂, Australia.

Distribution

States

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

Ecological Descriptors

Aquatic, arthropod-feeder, lentic freshwater, lotic freshwater, nocturnal, predator, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Maternal care.

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.

Carver, M., Gross, G.F. & Woodward, T.E. 1991. Hemiptera (bugs, leafhoppers, cicadas, aphids, scale insects, etc.) [with contributions by Cassis, G., Evans, J.W., Fletcher, M.J., Hill, L., Lansbury, I., Malipatil, M.B., Monteith, G.B., Moulds, M.S., Polhemus, J.T., Slater, J.A., Štys, P., Taylor, K.L., Weir, T.A. & Williams, D.J.]. pp. 429-509 in CSIRO (ed.). The Insects of Australia. A textbook for students and research workers. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press Vol. 1 xiii 542 pp. [487]

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 [57-58] (nov. comb. as Sphaerodema eques)

Mayr, G. 1871. Die Belostomiden. Monographisch bearbeitet. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 21: 399-440 [426, 427, 437] (nov. comb. as Diplonychus eques)

Woodward, T.E., Evans, J.W. & Eastop, V.F. 1970. Hemiptera (Bugs, leafhoppers, etc.). pp. 387-457 in CSIRO (ed.). The Insects of Australia. A textbook for students and research workers. Carlton : Melbourne University Press 1029 pp. [456] (note)

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