Hesperocorixa moesta (Fieber)

Slimani, Noura, Moulet, Pierre, Chen, Ping-Ping, Nieser, Nico, Pluot-Sigwalt, Dominique, Boumaïza, Moncef & Guilbert, Eric, 2015, Checklist, distribution, and a new record of Nepomorphan water bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in northern Tunisia, Zootaxa 3981 (2), pp. 151-176 : 159

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3981.2.1
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scientific name	Hesperocorixa moesta (Fieber)
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Hesperocorixa moesta (Fieber) View in CoL

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Material examined. Station 25, 21 -v-2013, 3 ♂; 03-ix-2013, 1♂ 1♀.

Comments. The specimens were collected in the sand at edge of slowly flowing streams near sea water. The first record for Tunisia was by Gadeau de Kerville (1908) in the north (Tabarka, Jendouba) under the name Corixa moesta Fieber, 1848 .

Distribution. This species occurs in most of the European countries, and north of Africa ( Jansson 1995; Carapezza 1997).

References

Carapezza, A. (1997) Heteroptera of Tunisia. Naturalista Siciliano, Serie IV, 21 (Supplement A), 1 - 312.

Jansson, A. (1995) Family Corixidae Leach, 1815 - water boatmen. In: Aukema, B. & Rieger, Ch. (Eds.), Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region. Vol. 1. Enicocephalomorpha, Dipsocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha and Leptopodomorpha. The Netherlands Entomological Society, Amsterdam, pp. 26 - 56.

Gadeau de Kerville, H. (1908) Hemipteres. In: Gadeau de Kerville, H. (Ed.), Voyage zoologique en Khroumirie (Tunisie). Mai- Juin 1906. J. B. Bailliere et fils, Paris, pp. 77 - 85.