Species Mesovelia horvathi Lundblad, 1933

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mesovelia horvathi 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 [190].

  Type data:

   Holotype NHRM, Lake Ranou, Sumatra, Indonesia.
• Mesovelia japonica Miyamoto, S. 1964. Semiaquatic Heteroptera of the south-west islands, lying between Kyushu and Formosa. Sieboldia 3: 193-219 [199].

  Type data:

   Holotype KUEL Male, Ohashi, Japan.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Polhemus, J.T. & Polhemus, D.A. 2000. The genus Mesovelia Mulsant & Rey in New Guinea (Heteroptera: Mesoveliidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 108: 205-230 [209]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

(new Australian record, this work), also Oriental Region—India, Indonesia (Java, Malaysia), Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam.

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, lentic freshwater, predator, tropical.

Extra Ecological Information

Semiaquatic.

General References

Andersen, N.M. & Polhemus, J.T. 1980. Four new genera of Mesoveliidae (Hemiptera, Gerromorpha) and the phylogeny and classification of the family. Entomologica Scandinavica 11: 369-392 [390] (list)

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] (key; checklist)

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