Species Xenobates angulana (Polhemus, 1982)

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• Halovelia (Colpovelia) angulana 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 [7].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, Francis Bay, S of Darwin, NT.
  Paratype(s) ANIC 46♂ 34♀ 2 larvae; CPOLH; UCM.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT: Darwin Coastal (DAC)

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26)

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, estuary, mangrove, predator.

Extra Ecological Information

Semiaquatic.

General References

Andersen, N.M. 1989. The coral bugs, genus Halovelia Bergroth (Hemiptera, Veliidae). I. History, classification, and taxonomy of species except the H. malaya-group. Entomologica Scandinavica 20: 75-120 [85] (nov. comb. as Xenobates angulana)

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. [113, 328] (key; checklist)

Lansbury, I. 1989. Notes on the Haloveliinae of Australia and the Solomon Islands (Insecta, Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Veliidae). Reichenbachia 26: 93-109 [93] (note)

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