Species Hermatobates weddi China, 1957

Museums

Regional Maps

• Hermatobates weddi 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 [346].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Monte Bello Is.

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld, WA: Pilbara (PIL)

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, coral reef.

General References

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.

Cheng, L. 1977. The elusive sea bug Hermatobates (Heteroptera). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 53: 87-97 [96, map 1] (distribution)

Cheng, L. & Schmitt, P.D. 1982. Marine insects of the genera Halobates and Hermatobates (Heteroptera) from neuston tows around Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 33: 1109-1112 (Coral Sea)

Miyamoto, S. 1961. Hemiptera: Gerridae. Insecta Japonica 1: 1-39 [32-33, figs 122-126] (description)

Miyamoto, S. 1964. Semiaquatic Heteroptera of the south-west islands, lying between Kyushu and Formosa. Sieboldia 3: 193-219 [196, 211]

Takara, T. 1957. Provisional list of Hemiptera (Heteroptera) of the Ryukyu Islands. Science Bulletin of the Agriculture & Home Economics Division, University of the Ryukyus 4: 11-90 [63]

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