Species Hydrometra strigosa (Skuse, 1893)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Limnobates strigosa Skuse, F.A.A. 1893. Notes on Australian aquatic Hemiptera. (No. 1). Records of the Australian Museum 2: 42-45 pl. xi [43].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂, Botany Swamp, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA: Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

Aquatic, predator, subtropical, swamp, 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, fig. 30.49A] (habitus)

Distant, W.L. 1902. Rhynchotal notes. XIV. Heteroptera: Families Hydrometridae, Henicocephalidae, and Reduviidae (part). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 10: 173-194 [174]

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 [41, 71, 106 pl. 8] (key, checklist)

McKeown, K.C. 1942. Australian Insects. An Introductory Handbook. Sydney : Sydney & Melbourne Publishing Co. Pty Ltd 303 pp. [89] (biology)

Tillyard, R.J. 1926. The Insects of Australia and New Zealand. Sydney : Angus & Robertson Ltd 560 pp. 42 pls. [153, fig. 13] (biology)

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, fig. 26.70A] (habitus)

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