Species Halovelia heron Andersen, 1989

Museums

Regional Maps

• Halovelia heron 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 [102].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM ♂, Heron Is., QLD.
  Paratype(s) EUQ 16♂ 17♀; RMNH ♂; CPOLH 17♂ 7♀; ZMUC.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Bedara Is., plus type locality.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, coral reef, predator, sublittoral, tropical.

Extra Ecological Information

Semiaquatic, collected amongst intertidal rocks.

 

General References

Andersen, N.M. 1989. The coral bugs, genus Halovelia Bergroth (Hemiptera, Veliidae). II. Taxonomy of the H. malaya-group, cladistics, ecology, biology, and biogeography. Entomologica Scandinavica 20: 179-227 (phylogeny)

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.

 

History of changes

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