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Genus Merragata White, 1877

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria


Extra Distribution Information

Oriental, Nearctic and Neotropical regions.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

NT, Qld, Vic: Daly Basin (DAB), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Distribution References

General References

Andersen, N.M. 1981. Semiaquatic bugs: phylogeny and classification of the Hebridae (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha) with revisions of Timasius, Neotimasius and Hycranus. Systematic Entomology 6: 377-412 [388] (classification)

Andersen, N.M. 1982. The Semiaquatic Bugs (Hemiptera, Gerromorpha). Phylogeny, adaptations, biogeography and classification. Denmark : Scandinavian Science Press Entomonograph Vol. 3 455 pp. [80-96, 300, 388, 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. [79, 327] (diagnosis; checklist)

Andersen, N.M. & Weir, T.A. 2004. Mesoveliidae, Hebridae, and Hydrometridae of Australia (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha), with a reanalysis of the phylogeny of semiaquatic bugs. Invertebrate Systematics 18: 467-522 [501] (redescription)

Froeschner, R.C. 1981. Heteroptera or true bugs of Ecuador: a partial catalog. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 1981(322): iv 1-147 [38] (Ecuador)

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. [1768] (list)

Polhemus, J.T. & Chapman, H.C. 1979. Family Hebridae/velvet water bugs. pp. 34-38 in Menke, A.S. (ed.). The Semiaquatic and Aquatic Hemiptera of California (Heteroptera: Hemiptera). Berkeley : University of California Press. [37] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement Lipogomphus Berg, 1879 as junior synonym)

Polhemus, J.T. & Polhemus, D.A. 1988. Family Hebridae Amyot and Serville, 1843: the velvet water bugs. pp. 152-155 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. [155] (Nearctic Region)

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
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)