Species Halovelia hilli China, 1957

Museums

Regional Maps

• Halovelia hilli 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 [352].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Monte Bello Ils.
  Paratype(s) BMNH ♀.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Green Is., Magnetic Is., Sherrard Is., Somerset Bay, Prince of Wales Is., NT—East Point Reef, Darwin, also Melanesia—New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Polynesia—Loyalty Ils.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Wet Tropics (WT)

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, mangrove, predator, rock reef, sublittoral, temporary pools, tropical.

Extra Ecological Information

Semiaquatic, intertidal in rock pools, wing polymorphism.

 

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 [86, 99, figs 57-63] (key, description, habitus)

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.

Hale, H.M. 1926. Studies in Australian aquatic Hemiptera. No. VII. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 3: 195-217 [203] (misidentification as Halovelia maritima)

Hale, H.M. 1935. Some aquatic Hemiptera from Western Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 59: 249-251 [251] (misidentification as Halovelia maritima)

Lansbury, I. 1989. Notes on the Haloveliinae of Australia and the Solomon Islands (Insecta, Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Veliidae). Reichenbachia 26: 93-109 [95, figs 8-15] (description)

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 [9, 10] (cf. with Halovelia maritima, biology)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2012		05-Dec-2012	MODIFIED
15-Aug-2012		15-Aug-2012	MODIFIED
20-Oct-2010		06-Jun-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)