Species Halovelia maritima Bergroth, 1893

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• Halovelia maritima Bergroth, E. 1893. On two halophilous Hemiptera. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 2 4: 277-279 [277].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Cartier Is., Timor Sea.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 2♂ ♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  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 [355].

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

WA—Timor Sea (110 miles from Roti Is.), Cartier Is., 175 miles from Cape Bougainville and Cape Voltaire, Pelsart Is., NT—East Point Reef, Darwin, also Melanesia—Papua New Guinea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Central Western Province (6)

Ecological Descriptors

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

Extra Ecological Information

Semiaquatic, intertidal in rock pools, under blocks of coral, larvae known, 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 [85, 87, figs 20-24] (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.

Esaki, T. 1926. The water-striders of the subfamily Halobatinae in the Hungarian National Museum. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 23: 117-164 [162] (New Guinea)

Hale, H.M. 1926. Studies in Australian aquatic Hemiptera. No. VII. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 3: 195-217 [203-206] (description, larvae)

Lansbury, I. 1989. Notes on the Haloveliinae of Australia and the Solomon Islands (Insecta, Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Veliidae). Reichenbachia 26: 93-109 [94, figs 1-7] (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 Halobates hilli)

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. [452] (note)

 

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