Subgenus Lethocerus (Lethocerus) Mayr, 1853

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lethocerus Mayr, G. 1853. Zwei neue Wanzen aus Korodofan, Limnogeton Fieberi u. Lethocerus cordofanus. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 2: 14-18 1 pl. [17].

  Type species:

   Lethocerus cordofanus Mayr, 1853 by monotypy.
• Iliastus Gistel, J. 1847. [Descriptions]. p. 191 in Gistel, J. & Bromme, J. & F. (eds). Handbuch der Nasturgeschichte, aller drei Reiche, für Lehrer and Lernende, für Schule und Haus. Stuttgart : Hoffmann. [191] [suppressed by International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature, see International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature 1983. Opinion 1248. Lethocerus Mayr, 1853 (Insecta, Hemiptera): conserved. Bull. Zool. Nomen. 40: 81–82].

  Type species:

   Nepa grandis Linnaeus, 1758 by monotypy.
• Amorgius Stål, C. 1865. Hemiptera Africana. Holmiae : Norstedtiana Vol. 3 200 pp. [179].

  Type species:

   Belostoma collosicum Stål, 1854 by subsequent monotypy, see Stål, C. 1866. Analecta hemipterologica. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 10: 151-172 [168].
• Montandonista Kirkaldy, G.W. 1901. Miscellenea Rhynchotalia. The Entomologist 34: 5-6 [6] [first introduced as a subgenus of Belostoma Latreille, 1807].

  Type species:

   Belostoma grande americanum Leidy, 1847 by subsequent designation, see Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. List of the genera of the pagiopodous Hemiptera-Heteroptera, with their type species, from 1758 to 1904 (and also of the aquatic and semi-aquatic Trochalopoda). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32: 117-156a, 156b [151].
• Kirkaldyia Montandon, A.L. 1909. Belostomidae et Nepidae. Notes diverses et description d'espèces nouvelles. Bullétin de la Société Scientifique Bucarest 18: 137-147 [138].

  Type species:

   Belostoma boutareli Montandon, 1895 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Torre-Bueno, J.R. de la 1908. Hemiptera Heteroptera of Westchester County, N.Y. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 16: 223-238 [237] (synonymy of Amorgius)
• Menke, A.S. 1960. A review of the genus Lethocerus (Hemiptera: Belostomatidae) in the Eastern Hemisphere with the description of a new species from Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 8: 285-288 [287] (synonymy of Kirkaldyia)
• Lauck, D.R. & Menke, A.S. 1961. The higher classification of the Belostomatidae (Hemiptera). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 54: 644-657 [647] (synonymy of Montandonista)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Afrotropical, Oriental, Palaearctic and Nearctic regions.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN) ; NT, Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Distribution References

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.

Kirkaldy, G.W. & Torre Bueno, J.R. de la 1908. A catalogue of American aquatic and semi-aquatic Hemiptera. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 10: 173-215 [188]

Mayr, G. 1863. Hemipterologische studien. Die Belostomiden. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13: 339-365 [363] (description)

Mayr, G. 1871. Die Belostomiden. Monographisch bearbeitet. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 21: 399-440 [401-402, 428] (description)

Menke, A.S. 1963. A review of the genus Lethocerus in North and Central America including the West Indies (Hemiptera: Belostomatidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 56: 261-267 (description)

Menke, A.S. 1979. Family Belostomatidae—Giant Water Bugs, Electric Light Bugs, Toe Biters. pp. 76-86 in Menke, A.S. (ed.). The Semiaquatic and Aquatic Hemiptera of California (Heteroptera: Hemiptera). Berkeley : University of California Press. [79] (description)

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. [1718, 1735, 1759] (morphology, biology)

Štys, P. & Jansson, A. 1988. Check-list of recent family-group and genus-group names of Nepomorpha (Heteroptera) of the world. Acta Entomologica Fennica 50: 1-44 [7] (synonymy)

Van Duzee, E.P. 1917. Catalogue of the Hemiptera of America north of Mexico, excepting the Aphididae, Coccidae and Aleurodidae. University of California Publications in Entomology. Technical Bulletin 2: xiv 1-902 [465]

 

History of changes

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