Species Nychia sappho Kirkaldy, 1901

Museums

Regional Maps

• Nychia marshalli sappho Kirkaldy, G.W. 1901. On some Rhynchota, principally from New Guinea, Amphicorisae and Notonectidae). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 20: 804-810 [809].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM (Institution uncertain), New Guinea.
• Nychia marshalli atavia 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 [17].

  Type data:

   Holotype NHRM ♂, Kimberley district, WA.
  Paratype(s) SAMA ♀.
• Nychia malayana 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 [148].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHRM, Malaysia.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lansbury, I. 1985. Notes on the identity of Nychia Stål (Hemiptera-Heteroptera: Notonectidae) in Australia. Occasional Papers of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 2: 1-9 [4]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Little Mitchell River, Tinaroo Falls, NT—Coomalie Creek, Darwin, Flying Fox Creek, Kakadu National Park, Koongarna, Stapleton Creek, Wildman River, also Oriental Region—Indonesia (Sulawesi), Malaysia, Melanesia—New Guinea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Darwin Coastal (DAC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

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

Extra Ecological Information

Billabongs, brachypterous.

 

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.

Nieser, N. & Chen, P. 1991. Naucoridae, Nepidae and Notonectidae, mainly from Sulawesi and Pulau Buton (Indonesia). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 134: 47-67 [64] (Indonesia, New Guinea)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
30-Nov-2012		30-Nov-2012	MODIFIED
15-Aug-2012		15-Aug-2012	MODIFIED
20-Oct-2010		06-Jun-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)