Genus Hydrometra Latreille, 1796

Museums

Regional Maps

• Hydrometra Latreille, P.A. 1796. Précis des Caractères génériques des Insectes, disposés dans un order naturel par citoyen Latreille. Brive : F. Bourdeaux xiv 201 pp. 5 pls. [86].

  Type species:

   Cimex stagnorum Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Latreille, P.A. 1810. Considération Générales sur l'Order Naturel des Animaux Composant les Classes des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes; avec un Tableau Méthodique de leurs Genres Disposés en Familles. Paris : F. Schoell viii 444 pp. [this work is the subject of Opinions 11 and 136, ICZN, and is on the Official List of Works approved as available for Zoological Nomenclature] [434].
• Limnobates Burmeister, H. 1835. Handbuch der Entomologie. Zweiter Band: II Ordnung Rhynchota. Berlin : Theod. Ehr. Friedr. Enslin iv 400 pp. [210] [junior objective synonym of Hydrometra Latreille, 1796].

  Type species:

   Cimex stagnorum Linnaeus, 1758 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• China, W.E. 1943. The Generic Names of British Insect. Prepared by the Committee on Generic Nomenclature of the Royal Entomological Society of London with the assistance of the Department of Entomology of the British Museum of Natural History. Part 8. The generic names of the British Hemiptera-Heteroptera, with a check list of the British species. London : Royal Entomological Society of London 211-342 pp. [274] (as objective synonyms)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NSW, NT, Qld, SA: Sydney Basin (SB) ; Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT) ; Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Other Regions

Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Distribution References

General References

Andersen, N.M. 1982. The Semiaquatic Bugs (Hemiptera, Gerromorpha). Phylogeny, adaptations, biogeography and classification. Denmark : Scandinavian Science Press Entomonograph Vol. 3 455 pp. [49, 107-129, 258, 282, 339-341, 350, 390] (taxonomy, biology)

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.

Drake, C.J. & Lauck, D.R. 1959. Descriptions, synonymy, and check-list of American Hydrometridae. Great Basin Naturalist 19: 43-51 [50, 45] (list; description)

Froeschner, R.C. 1981. Heteroptera or true bugs of Ecuador: a partial catalog. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 1981(322): iv 1-147 [39] (Ecuador)

Hungerford, H.B. & Evans, N.E. 1934. The Hydrometridae of the Hungarian National Museum and other studies in the family. (Hemiptera). Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 28: 31-112 [36] (taxonomy)

Lethierry, L. & Severin, G. 1896. Catalogue Général des Hémiptères. Tome III. Hétéroptères Tingidae, Phymatidae, Aradidae, Hebridae, Hydrometridae, Henicocephalidae, Reduvidae, Saldidae, Apophilidae, Ceratocombidae, Cimicidae, Anthocoridae. Berlin : R. Friedländer & Fils 275 pp. [54] (catalogue)

Poisson, R. 1951. Ordre des Hétéroptères. (Heteroptera Latreille, 1810—Frontirostres Fallén, 1814). pp. 1657-1803 in Grassé, P.P. (ed.). Traité de Zoologie: Anatomie, Systématique, Biologie. Insectes supérieurs et Hémiptéroides. Paris : Masson & Cie Vol. 10. [1664, 1709, 1739, 1769] (taxonomy)

Smith, C.L. 1988. Family Hydrometridae Billberg, 1820. The Marsh Treaders. pp. 156-158 in Henry, T.J. & Froeschner, R.C. (eds). Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. Leiden : E.J. Brill xix 958 pp. [157] (Nearctic Region)

Usinger, R.L. 1963. Aquatic Hemiptera. pp. 182-228 in Usinger, R.L. (ed.). Aquatic Insects of California with keys to North American genera and California species. Berkeley : University of California Press. [219] (California)

Villiers, A. 1952. Initiations Africaines. IX. Hémiptères de l'Afrique Noire (Punaiseset cigales). Institut Français d'Afrique Noire-Dakar 9: 1-256 [132] (Afrotropical Region)

 

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