Species Microvelia (Pacificovelia) oceanica (Distant, 1914)
- Microvelia oceanica Distant. W.L. 1914. Rhynchota from New Caledonia and the surrounding islands. 369-390 pls xi, xii in Sarasin, F. & Roux, J. (eds). Nova Caledonia Forschungen in Neu-Caledonien und auf den Loyalty-Inseln A. Zoologie. Wiesbaden : C.W. Kreidels Vol. 2. [383].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH, Oubatche, New Caledonia and Ouvea, Fayaoue, Loyalty Ils.
Paratype(s) BMNH. - Microvelia australica Bergroth, E. 1916. Heteropterous Hemiptera collected by Professor W. Baldwin Spencer during the Horn Expedition into Central Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 29: 19-39 [38].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH, Palm Creek, NT (as Central Australia). - Microvelia halei Esaki, T. 1928. Aquatic and semi-aquatic Heteroptera. pp. 67–80 in, Insects of Samoa and other Samoan terrestrial Arthropoda. Part II. Hemiptera. Fasc. 2. London : William Clowes & Sons Ltd. [69] [described in a footnote].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH, New Caledonia.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Malipatil, M.B. 1980. Review of Australian Microvelia Westwood (Hemiptera: Veliidae) with a description of two new species from eastern Australia. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 31: 85-108 [87]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
NE coastal, SE coastal, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, Lake Eyre basin, QLD, NSW, Lord Howe Is., Norfolk Is., VIC, TAS, SA, NT; QLD—Cairns district, Emu Park, Moura, NSW—Broken Hill, Dorrigo, Myall Lakes, Wagga Wagga, VIC—Hattah Lakes, Irymple, Shaw Creek, Thomson River, TAS—Devonport, SA—Adelaide, Myponga, Willunga, NT—Palm Valley, also Melanesia—New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Polynesia—Samoa.
Other Regions
Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater
Ecological Descriptors
Arthropod-feeder, gregarious, lentic freshwater, predator, sublittoral, swamp.
Extra Ecological Information
Semiaquatic, sometimes associated with nearshore freshwater areas with emergent vegetation, associated with Mesovelia hungerfordi Hale, 1926.
General References
Andersen, N.M. 1969. A new Microvelia from Australia with a check-list of Australian species (Hemiptera, Veliidae). Entomologiske Meddelelser 37: 253-261 [260] (description)
Andersen, N.M. & Weir, T.A. 2003. The genus Microvelia in Australia (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae). Invertebrate Systematics 17: 261-348 [326] (new combination as Microvelia (Pacificvelia) oceanica)
Hale, H.M. 1926. Studies in Australian aquatic Hemiptera. No. VII. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 3: 195-217 [207-211, 216] (key, description, notes on
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 [341] (list)
Polhemus, J.T. & Herring, J.L. 1970. Ergebnisse der Österreichischen Neukaledonien Expedition. Aquatic and semiaquatic Hemiptera. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 72: 179-187 [181] (New Caledonia)
Tillyard, R.J. 1926. The Insects of Australia and New Zealand. Sydney : Angus & Robertson Ltd 560 pp. 42 pls. [153] (note)
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