Subgenus Rhagadotarsus (Rhagadotarsus) Breddin, 1905

Museums

Regional Maps

• Rhagadotarsus Breddin, G. 1905. Rhynchota Heteroptera aus Java, gesammelt von Prof. K. Kraepelin 1904. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg 22: 109-159 [137].

  Type species:

   Rhagadotarsus kraepelini Breddin, 1905 by monotypy.
• Nacebus Distant, W.L. 1910. Some undescribed Gerrinae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 5: 140-153 [152].

  Type species:

   Nacebus dux Distant, 1910 by monotypy.
• Caprivia China, 1931 [as subgenus of Rhagadotarsus].

  Type species:

   Rhagadotarsus (Caprivia) hutchinsoni China, 1931 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [412]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Afrotropical Region—South Africa, Sudan; Palaearctic Region—China; Oriental Region—Burma, Indonesia (Java), India, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan; Malenesia - Papua New Guinea

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Pine Creek (PCK), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

General References

Andersen, N.M. 1982. The Semiaquatic Bugs (Hemiptera, Gerromorpha). Phylogeny, adaptations, biogeography and classification. Denmark : Scandinavian Science Press Entomonograph Vol. 3 455 pp. [184-231] (taxonomy, biology)

Andersen, N.M. & Weir, T.A. 1998. Australian water striders of the subfamilies Trepobatinae and Rhagadotarsinae (Hemiptera: Gerridae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 12: 509-544 [536] (redescription)

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.

Bergroth, E. 1918. Studies in Philippine Heteroptera, I. Philippine Journal of Science 13: 43-73, 75-126 [122] (Philippines)

Cheng, L. & Fernando, C.H. 1969. A taxonomic study of the Malayan Gerridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) with notes on their biology and distribution. Oriental Insects 3: 97-160 [100, 128] (Malaysia)

 

History of changes

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