Species Limnometra kallisto (Kirkaldy, 1899)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Gerris kallisto Kirkaldy, G.W. 1899. Aquatic Rhynchota in the collection of the Royal Museum of Belgium. Notes and descriptions. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 43: 505-510 [506].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (possibly lost; see Hungerford, H.B. & Matsuda, R. 1958. The Tenagogonus-Limnometra complex of the Gerridae. Kansas Univ. Sci. Bull. 39: 371–457 [423]), Mysol, Moluccas.

Distribution

Recorded from "Australia".

Extra Distribution Information

Also Oriental Region—Indonesia (Maluka), Melanesia—New Britain, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Ils.

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, lentic freshwater, lotic freshwater, predator.

Extra Ecological Information

Semiaquatic.

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.

Hungerford, H.B. & Matsuda, R. 1958. The Tenagogonus-Limnometra complex of the Gerridae. Kansas University Science Bulletin 39: 371-457 [422, pl. 5 fig. 31, pl. 16 fig. 27] (description)

Lundblad, O. 1933. Zur Kenntnis der aquatilen und semiaquatilen Hemipteren von Sumatra, Java und Bali auf Grund des Materials der Deutschen Limnologischen Sunda-Expedition, nebst Revision einiger anderer, indoaustralischer Arten. Archiv für Hydrobiologie 12: 1-195, 263-489 [37] (nov. comb. as Limnometra kallisto)

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