Genus Merragata White, 1877
- Merragata White, F.B. 1877. Description of new species of Heteropterous Hemiptera collected in the Hawaiian Islands by the Rev. T. Blackburn. No. 1. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 20: 110-114 [114].
Type species:
Merragata hebroides White, 1877 by monotypy.
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Oriental, Nearctic and Neotropical regions.
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
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
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| 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) |