Species Halobates (Halobates) regalis Carpenter, 1892

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• Halobates regalis Carpenter, G.H. 1892. Reports on the zoological collections made in Torres Straits by Professor A.C. Haddon, 1888–1889. Rhynchota from Murray Island and Mabuiag. Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society 7: 137-146 [144].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Mabuiag Is., (Murray Is.), Torres Strait Ils.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Bedara Is., Torres Strait Ils (Thursday Is.), WA—Monte Bello Is., Arafura Sea, also Oriental Region—Celebes Sea, Indonesia (Java), Malaysia.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld, WA: Pilbara (PIL), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, coastal, predator.

Extra Ecological Information

Semiaquatic, intertidal zone of coral reefs.

 

General References

Andersen, N.M. 1991. Cladistic biogeography of marine water striders (Insecta, Hemiptera) in the Indo-Pacific. Australian Systematic Botany 4: 151-163 (biogeography)

Andersen, N.M. 1991. Marine insects: genital morphology, phylogeny and evolution of sea skaters, genus Halobates (Hemiptera: Gerridae). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 103: 21-60 [23, 27-29, 41, 45-46, 59] (morphology)

Andersen, N.M. & Weir, T.A. 1994. The sea skaters, genus Halobates Eschscholtz (Hemiptera: Gerridae), of Australia: taxonomy, phylogeny and zoogeography. Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 861-909 [880] (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.

China, W.E. 1957. The marine Hemiptera of the Monte Bello Islands, with descriptions of some allied species. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 43(291): 342-357 [345] (description)

Hale, H.M. 1925. Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. 44. The aquatic and semi-aquatic Hemiptera. Arkiv för Zoologi 17A(20): 1-19 [13] (note)

Herring, J.L. 1961. The genus Halobates (Hemiptera: Gerridae). Pacific Insects 3: 223-305 [283]

Malipatil, M.B. 1988. Two new species of Halobates Eschscholtz (Hemiptera: Gerridae) from Australia. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 27: 157-160 [157] (distribution)

Polhemus, J.T. 1982. Marine Hemiptera of the Northern Territory, including the first fresh-water species of Halobates Eschscholtz (Gerridae, Veliidae, Hermatobatidae and Corixidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 21: 5-11 [5] (note)

 

History of changes

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