Limnometra nigripennis nigripennis Mayr, 1865

Pelingen, Arthien Lovell, Zettel, Herbert, Pangantihon, Clister V, Aldaba, Kyra Mari Dominique, Fatallo, Earl Kevin, de Leon, Jemillie Madonna & Freitag, Hendrik, 2020, Contributions to the knowledge of water bugs in Mindoro Island, Philippines, with a species checklist of Nepomorpha and Gerromorpha (Insecta, Hemiptera, Heteroptera), Biodiversity Data Journal 8, pp. 56883-56883 : 56883

Limnometra nigripennis nigripennis Mayr, 1865

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1 female (ap); Taxon: scientificName: Limnometranigripennisnigripennis; Location: island: Mindoro; country: Philippines; municipality: Puerto Galera; locationRemarks: 304b; Event: eventDate: 07/24/2017 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 2 males (ma); Taxon: scientificName: Limnometranigripennisnigripennis; Location: island: Mindoro; country: Philippines; municipality: Roxas; locationRemarks: HQCb; Event: eventDate: 06/30/2017 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 3 males (ma), 1 female (ap); Taxon: scientificName: Limnometranigripennisnigripennis; Location: island: Mindoro; country: Philippines; municipality: Roxas; locationRemarks: HQCc; Event: eventDate: 06/30/2017 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 3 males (ap); Taxon: scientificName: Limnometranigripennisnigripennis; Location: island: Mindoro; country: Philippines; municipality: Roxas; locationRemarks: TDR1b; Event: eventDate: 06/23/2017 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1 female (ap); Taxon: scientificName: Limnometranigripennisnigripennis; Location: island: Mindoro; country: Philippines; municipality: Roxas; locationRemarks: TDR4c; Event: eventDate: 07/04/2017 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1 female (ap); Taxon: scientificName: Limnometranigripennisnigripennis; Location: island: Mindoro; country: Philippines; municipality: Roxas; locationRemarks: THCb; Event: eventDate: 06/25/2017 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1 female (ma); Taxon: scientificName: Limnometranigripennisnigripennis; Location: island: Mindoro; country: Philippines; municipality: Roxas; locationRemarks: THCb; Event: eventDate: 06/29/2017 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 5 males (ap), 1 female (ap); Taxon: scientificName: Limnometranigripennisnigripennis; Location: island: Mindoro; country: Philippines; municipality: Roxas; locationRemarks: TIR1b; Event: eventDate: 09/22/2017 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 4 males (ma); Taxon: scientificName: Limnometranigripennisnigripennis; Location: island: Mindoro; country: Philippines; municipality: Roxas; locationRemarks: HR3e; Event: eventDate: 06/19/2017 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1 female (ap); Taxon: scientificName: Limnometranigripennisnigripennis; Location: island: Mindoro; country: Philippines; municipality: Roxas; locationRemarks: TUCb; Event: eventDate: 11/17/2017 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 2 males (ma); Taxon: scientificName: Limnometranigripennisnigripennis; Location: island: Mindoro; country: Philippines; municipality: Roxas; locationRemarks: TWCt; Event: eventDate: 06/25/2017 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 3 males (ap); Taxon: scientificName: Limnometranigripennisnigripennis; Location: island: Mindoro; country: Philippines; municipality: Roxas; locationRemarks: TWCb; Event: eventDate: 09/23/2017

Distribution

Limnometra nigripennis nigripennis Mayr, 1865 (see Mayr 1865) (Fig. 9 B) is endemic and widespread in the Philippines. Records are available from Biliran, Bohol, Camiguin, Guimaras, Leyte, Luzon, Mindanao, Mindoro (see Fig. 8 for our additional records), Negros, Panay, Polillo, Sibuyan, Tablas, Ticao, as well as unpublished records from Masbate ( Zettel 2014 and references therein).

Taxon discussion

For identification, refer to Zettel (2004b).

Habitat

Limnometra nigripennis Mayr 1865 is amongst the most widespread and abundant Gerromorpha of Philippine running waters ( Zettel 2004b, Zettel 2014). It exhibits higher tolerance to environmental disturbances in streams than other species. However, we recorded it predominantely from clean streams (Fig. 2 C, D). Lentic sections of very small to medium-sized streams and pools associated with running water are its typical habitats ( Zettel 2014).

Figures

Figure 2. Sampling sites at the Baroc River basin (Roxas, southern Mindoro). A. lower Baroc River (BR 3); B. Hinundungan River from Hinagdanan Falls (HR 2); C. upper Taugad Daka River (TDR 4); D. small tributary of the Taugad River (TUC).

Figure 8. Distribution of the collecting sites of Gerromorpha material (part 2) treated in this study.

Figure 9. Selected habitus illustrations of Gerromorpha of Mindoro A. Limnogonus nitidus; B. Limnometra nigripennis nigripennis; C. Tenagogonus sp. (mutilated specimen); D. Rheumatogonus luzonicus; E. Metrocoris tenuicornis. Scale bars 10 mm.