Species Hydrometra risbeci Hungerford, 1938

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• Hydrometra risbeci Hungerford, H.B. 1938. A new Hydrometra from New Caledonia and Australia. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 14: 81-83 [81].

  Type data:

   Holotype KU ♂, New Caledonia.
  Paratype(s) KU ♂ ♀.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Brisbane, Norfolk Is. (new record, Polhemus, J.T., pers. comm.); Townsville, also Melanesia—New Caledonia, Polynesia—Tahiti, Society Is., New Zealand.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Other Regions

Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Aquatic, lentic freshwater, lotic freshwater, predator, subtropical, temperate, tropical.

 

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.

Carver, M., Gross, G.F. & Woodward, T.E. 1991. Hemiptera (bugs, leafhoppers, cicadas, aphids, scale insects, etc.) [with contributions by Cassis, G., Evans, J.W., Fletcher, M.J., Hill, L., Lansbury, I., Malipatil, M.B., Monteith, G.B., Moulds, M.S., Polhemus, J.T., Slater, J.A., Štys, P., Taylor, K.L., Weir, T.A. & Williams, D.J.]. pp. 429-509 in CSIRO (ed.). The Insects of Australia. A textbook for students and research workers. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press Vol. 1 xiii 542 pp. [483] (note)

Polhemus, J.T. & Herring, J.L. 1970. Ergebnisse der Österreichischen Neukaledonien Expedition. Aquatic and semiaquatic Hemiptera. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 72: 179-187 [185] (New Caledonia)

Polhemus, J.T. & Herring, J.L. 1970. Études hydrobiologiques en Nouvelle-Calédonie (Mission 1965 du Premier Institut de Zoologie de l'Université de Vienne) (suite). X. Aquatic and semiaquatic Hemiptera of New Caledonia. Cahiers O.R.S.T.O.M. Séries Hydrobiologiques 4: 3-12 [9] (New Caledonia)

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. [453] (note)

 

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)