Ranatra linearis Linnaeus

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 : 155

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3981.2.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5680817
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scientific name	Ranatra linearis Linnaeus
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Material examined. Station 49, 23 -v-2013, 1 ♂, 30-xi-2013, 1♂; station 25, 20 -viii-2013, 1 ♂. Comments. This species is recorded as new for Tunisia. The specimens were collected in sand at edge of slow flowing areas of rivers and at altitudes near sea-level.

Distribution. Palearctic Region, reaching from Great Britain and Morocco to Iran, Central Asia, Northwestern China (Xinjiang), and East Siberia (Polhemus 1995; Fent et al. 2011, Aukema et al. 2013). New record for Tunisia

References

Aukema, B., Rieger, Ch. & Rabitsch, W. (2013) Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region. VI. Supplement. The Netherlands Entomological Society, Amsterdam, xxiii + 629 pp.

Fent, M., Kment, P., Camur-Elipek, B. & Kirgiz, T. (2011) Annotated catalogue of Enicocephalomorpha, Dipsocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha, and Leptopodomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of Turkey, with new records. Zootaxa, 2856, 1 - 84.