Genus Mesovelia Mulsant & Rey, 1852

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• Mesovelia Mulsant, E. & Rey, C. 1852. Description de quelques Hémiptères Hétéroptères nouveaux ou peu connus. Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 1850–52: 76–141 1 pl. [138].

  Type species:

   Mesovelia furcata Mulsant & Rey, 1852 by monotypy.
• Fieberia Yakovleff, B.E. 1874. [Materials for the Entomological fauna of European Russia.]. Trudy Russkago Entomologicheskago Obshchestva 7: 7-43 [In Russian] [32].

  Type species:

   Fieberia lacustris Yakovleff, 1874 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Horváth, G. 1929. General Catalogue of the Hemiptera. Fascicle II. Mesoveliidae. Northampton : Smith College viii 24 pp. [1]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Kanmantoo (KAN), Sydney Basin (SB) ; Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater

Distribution References

General References

Andersen, N.M. 1982. The Semiaquatic Bugs (Hemiptera, Gerromorpha). Phylogeny, adaptations, biogeography and classification. Denmark : Scandinavian Science Press Entomonograph Vol. 3 455 pp. [62-80, 153, 253, 282, 293, 338, 340-341, 350, 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. [70, 327] (diagnosis; checklist)

Champion, G.C. 1898. Insecta: Rhynchota (Hemiptera-Heteroptera): Tingidae to Hydrometridae. pp. 33-192 pls iii-xi in Godman, F.D. & Salvin, O. (eds). Biologia Centrali-Americana. London : Publisher unknown Vol. 2. [123] (Neotropical Region)

China, W.E. 1943. The Generic Names of British Insect. Prepared by the Committee on Generic Nomenclature of the Royal Entomological Society of London with the assistance of the Department of Entomology of the British Museum of Natural History. Part 8. The generic names of the British Hemiptera-Heteroptera, with a check list of the British species. London : Royal Entomological Society of London 211-342 pp. [276] (list)

Distant, W.L. 1903. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota (Heteroptera). London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 2(1) x 242 pp. [168] (description)

Lethierry, L. & Severin, G. 1896. Catalogue Général des Hémiptères. Tome III. Hétéroptères Tingidae, Phymatidae, Aradidae, Hebridae, Hydrometridae, Henicocephalidae, Reduvidae, Saldidae, Apophilidae, Ceratocombidae, Cimicidae, Anthocoridae. Berlin : R. Friedländer & Fils 275 pp. [53] (catalogue)

Polhemus, J.T. & Chapman, H.C. 1979. Family Mesoveliidae/water treaders. pp. 39-42 in Menke, A.S. (ed.). The Semiaquatic and Aquatic Hemiptera of California (Heteroptera: Hemiptera). Berkeley : University of California Press. [410] (description)

Smith, C.L. 1988. Family Mesoveliidae Douglas and Scott, 1867. The water treaders. pp. 247-248 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. [248] (Nearctic Region)

Zimmerman, E.C. 1948. Insects of Hawaii. Heteroptera. Honolulu : Univ. Hawaii Press Vol. 3 255 pp. [226] (Hawaii)

 

History of changes

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