Species Mesovelia hungerfordi Hale, 1926

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• Mesovelia hungerfordi Hale, H.M. 1926. Studies in Australian aquatic Hemiptera. No. VII. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 3: 195-217 [198].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA ♂ (macropterous male selected as lectotype), Adelaide, SA.
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA ♂ 2♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Cassis, G. & Gross, G.F. 1995. Hemiptera: Heteroptera (Coleorrhuncha to Cimicomorpha). pp. 1-501 in Houston, W.W.K. & Maynard, G.V. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Hemiptera: Coleorrhyncha to Cimicomorpha. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia Vol. 27.3A xv 506 pp.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Ayr, Brisbane, Gladford Creek, Imbil, Mt Sorrow, NSW—Sydney, SA—Murray River, Myponga.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, lentic freshwater, predator, subtropical, temperate.

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)

Carver, M., Gross, G.F. & Woodward, T.E. 1991. Hemiptera (bugs, leafhoppers, cicadas, aphids, scale insects, etc.) [with contributions by Cassis, G., Evans, J.W., Fletcher, M.J., Hill, L., Lansbury, I., Malipatil, M.B., Monteith, G.B., Moulds, M.S., Polhemus, J.T., Slater, J.A., Štys, P., Taylor, K.L., Weir, T.A. & Williams, D.J.]. pp. 429-509 in CSIRO (ed.). The Insects of Australia. A textbook for students and research workers. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press Vol. 1 xiii 542 pp. [482, fig. 30.49C] (habitus)

Horváth, G. 1929. General Catalogue of the Hemiptera. Fascicle II. Mesoveliidae. Northampton : Smith College viii 24 pp. [5] (catalogue)

Woodward, T.E., Evans, J.W. & Eastop, V.F. 1970. Hemiptera (Bugs, leafhoppers, etc.). pp. 387-457 in CSIRO (ed.). The Insects of Australia. A textbook for students and research workers. Carlton : Melbourne University Press 1029 pp. [453, fig. 26.70C] (habitus)

 

History of changes

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