Species Ranatra diminuta Montandon, 1907

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• Ranatra longipes diminuta Montandon, A.L. 1907. Quelques espèces du genre Ranatra des collections du Muséum de Paris. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 76: 49-66 [57].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NHRM ♂, E Australia (l'Australie orientale méridionale).
  Paralectotype(s) NHRM ♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Lansbury, I. 1972. A review of the Oriental species of Ranatra Fabricius (Hemiptera-Heteroptera: Nepidae). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 124: 287-341 [323] (syntypical specimen from Fiji excluded).

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Aquatic, arthropod-feeder, lentic freshwater, predator.

Extra Ecological Information

Associated with plant debris and submerged weeds.

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. 1924. Studies in Australian aquatic Hemiptera. No. III. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 2: 503-520 pls XXXIV-XXXV [518] (misidentification as Ranatra longipes Stål, 1861)

Lansbury, I. 1972. A review of the Oriental species of Ranatra Fabricius (Hemiptera-Heteroptera: Nepidae). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 124: 287-341 [323, figs 165-185] (description)

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 [29] (list)

Menke, A.S. & Strange, L.A. 1964. A new genus of Nepidae from Australia with notes on the higher classification of the family. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 75: 67-72 pl. VII [71] (list)

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