Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

• Hungerford, H.B. 1933. The genus Notonecta of the world (Notonectidae-Hemiptera). Kansas University Science Bulletin 21: 5-195 [23-25]
• Štys, P. & Jansson, A. 1988. Check-list of recent family-group and genus-group names of Nepomorpha (Heteroptera) of the world. Acta Entomologica Fennica 50: 1-44 [14]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

IBRA

WA: Warren (WAR)

Distribution References

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.

History of changes

• Enitharonecta Hungerford, H.B. 1928. Some recent studies in aquatic Hemiptera (including a new subgenus and a new species). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 21: 139-146 [143] [first introduced as a subgenus of Notonecta Linnaeus, 1758].

  Type species:

   Notonecta handlirschi Kirkaldy, 1897 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA

WA: Warren (WAR)

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.

Hungerford, H.B. 1933. The genus Notonecta of the world (Notonectidae-Hemiptera). Kansas University Science Bulletin 21: 5-195 [25] (diagnosis)

Poisson, R. 1951. Ordre des Hétéroptères. (Heteroptera Latreille, 1810—Frontirostres Fallén, 1814). pp. 1657-1803 in Grassé, P.P. (ed.). Traité de Zoologie: Anatomie, Systématique, Biologie. Insectes supérieurs et Hémiptéroides. Paris : Masson & Cie Vol. 10. [1755] (list)

Štys, P. & Jansson, A. 1988. Check-list of recent family-group and genus-group names of Nepomorpha (Heteroptera) of the world. Acta Entomologica Fennica 50: 1-44 [14] (classification)

History of changes

• Notonecta handlirschi Kirkaldy, G.W. 1897. Revision of the Notonectidae. Part I. Introduction, and systematic revision of the genus Notonecta. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1897: 393-426 [408].

  Type data:

   Holotype NHMW ♂, Australia.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

WA—N of Walpole (new record, Polhemus, J.T., pers. coll.).

IBRA

WA: Warren (WAR)

Ecological Descriptors

Aquatic, arthropod-feeder, diurnal, lentic freshwater, predator, volant.

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. 1923. Studies in Australian aquatic Hemiptera. No. II. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 2: 397-424 pls X-XI [418] (note)

Hungerford, H.B. 1928. Some recent studies in aquatic Hemiptera (including a new subgenus and a new species). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 21: 139-146 [143] (as Notonecta (Enitharonecta) handlirschi)

Hungerford, H.B. 1933. The genus Notonecta of the world (Notonectidae-Hemiptera). Kansas University Science Bulletin 21: 5-195 [27, pl. 4 fig. 2, pl. 8 fig. 4, pl. 9 fig. 7] (description, distribution)

History of changes

• Notonecta Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10 Edn., 824 pp. [439].

  Type species:

   Notonecta glauca Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Latreille, P.A. 1810. Considération Générales sur l'Order Naturel des Animaux Composant les Classes des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes; avec un Tableau Méthodique de leurs Genres Disposés en Familles. Paris : F. Schoell viii 444 pp. [this work is the subject of Opinions 11 and 136, ICZN, and is on the Official List of Works approved as available for Zoological Nomenclature] [434].

Distribution

Recorded from "Australia".

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

Distribution References

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.

Brooks, A.R. & Kelton, L.A. 1967. Aquatic and semiaquatic Heteroptera of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba (Hemiptera). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 51: 1-92 [39, 40] (description)

Brooks, G.T. 1951. A revision of the genus Anisops (Notonectidae: Hemiptera). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 34: 301-519 [307] (key)

Champion, G.C. 1901. Insecta: Rhynchota (Hemiptera-Heteroptera). pp. 1-416 in Godman, F.D. & Salvin, O. (eds). Biologia Centrali-Americana; or, contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and central America, Zoology. London : Dulau Vol. 2 xvi 416 pp., 22 pls. [1897: 1–32; 1898: 33–192; 1899: 193–304; 1900: 305–344; 1901: xvi 345–416] [368] (Neotropical Region)

Douglas, J.W. & Scott, J. 1865. The British Hemiptera. Vol. I. Hemiptera-Heteroptera. London : Robert Hardwicke xii 627 pp. 21 pls. [585] (description)

Hale, H.M. 1923. Studies in Australian aquatic Hemiptera. No. II. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 2: 397-424 pls X-XI [418] (description)

Jaczewski, T. 1937. Allgemeine Züge der geographischen Verbreitung der Wasserhemipteren. Archiv für Hydrobiologie 31: 565-591 [567, 575, 583, 585, 586, 589, 590] (taxonomy)

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1897. Revision of the Notonectidae. Part I. Introduction, and systematic revision of the genus Notonecta. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1897: 393-426 [395] (key)

Polhemus, J.T. & Polhemus, D.A. 1988. Family Notonectidae Latreille, 1802: the backswimmers. pp. 533-540 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. [537] (Nearctic Region)

Stål, C. 1865. Hemiptera Africana. Holmiae : Norstedtiana Vol. 3 200 pp. [190] (key)

Truxal, F.S. 1979. Family Notonectidae—Backswimmers. pp. 139-147 in Menke, A.S. (ed.). The Semiaquatic and Aquatic Hemiptera of California (Heteroptera: Hemiptera). Berkeley : University of California Press. [140] (diagnosis)

Usinger, R.L. 1963. Aquatic Hemiptera. pp. 182-228 in Usinger, R.L. (ed.). Aquatic Insects of California with keys to North American genera and California species. Berkeley : University of California Press. [198] (key)

Van Duzee, E.P. 1917. Catalogue of the Hemiptera of America north of Mexico, excepting the Aphididae, Coccidae and Aleurodidae. University of California Publications in Entomology. Technical Bulletin 2: xiv 1-902 [449] (Nearctic Region)

History of changes

• Notonecta australis Olivier, A.G. 1811. Histoire Naturelle Insectes. Encyclopédie Méthodique. Hemiptera. Paris : H. Agasse Vol. 8(2) pp. 361-722. [389].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP (Institution uncertain), Australia (as Nouvelle-Hollande).

Distribution

Recorded from "Australia".

Ecological Descriptors

Aquatic, arthropod-feeder, diurnal, lentic freshwater, predator, volant.

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. 1923. Studies in Australian aquatic Hemiptera. No. II. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 2: 397-424 pls X-XI [418] (note)

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1897. Revision of the Notonectidae. Part I. Introduction, and systematic revision of the genus Notonecta. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1897: 393-426 [426] (as Notonecta (?Anisops) australis)

History of changes