Species Nerthra femoralis (Montandon, 1899)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mononyx femoralis Montandon, A.L. 1899. Hémiptèra Cryptocerata. s. fam. Mononychinae. Notes et descriptions d'espèces nouvelles. 1ère partie. Bulletin de la Société des Sciences de Bucarest-Roumanie 8: 392-407 [402].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, Champion Bay, WA (as Sydney, incorrect original locality).

  Type locality references:

  Todd, E.L. 1955. A taxonomic revision of the family Gelastocoridae (Hemiptera). Kansas University Science Bulletin 37: 277-475 [424].

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

WA—Bridgetown, Capel River, Hover, Inglewood, King George Sound, Margaret River, Mundaring Weir, Pemberton, Perth, Rottnest Island, Swan River, Yanchep.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR)

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, diurnal, predator.

 

General References

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.

Hale, H.M. 1925. Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. 44. The aquatic and semi-aquatic Hemiptera. Arkiv för Zoologi 17A(20): 1-19 [16] (description)

Horváth, G. 1902. Descriptions of new Hemiptera from New South Wales. Természetrajzi Füzetek 25: 601-612 [612] (list)

Nieser, N. 1977. Gelastocoridae in the Zoologisches Museum der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Heteroptera). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift ns 24: 293-303 [300] (list)

Todd, E.L. 1955. A taxonomic revision of the family Gelastocoridae (Hemiptera). Kansas University Science Bulletin 37: 277-475 [423, pl. 12 fig. 105] (nov. comb. as Nerthra femoralis, description)

Todd, E.L. 1957. Five new species of Gelastocoridae with comments on other species (Hemiptera). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 59: 145-162 [159] (description, distribution)

Todd, E.L. 1960. The Gelastocoridae of Australia (Hemiptera). Pacific Insects 2: 171-194 [181, figs 2, 7, 41] (description)

Todd, E.L. 1961. A checklist of the Gelastocoridae (Hemiptera). Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 17: 461-476 [468] (list)

 

History of changes

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