Notonecta viridis (Delcourt)

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 : 167

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3981.2.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5680877

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scientific name

Notonecta viridis (Delcourt)
status

 

Notonecta viridis (Delcourt) View in CoL

( Fig. 7 View FIGURE 7. A B)

Material examined. Station 35, 29 -x-2013, 1 ♂; 27-xii-2013, 1♂; station 36, 28 -vi-2013, 1 ♂; 24-vii-2013, 1♂; 21- viii-2013, 2♂; 04-ix-2013, 2♂; station 44, 16 -vii-2013, 2 ♂1♀; 02-ix-2013, 1♀.

Comments. The specimens were collected in lentic and lotic habitats associated with aquatic vegetation up to 368 m asl. The species was first recorded from Tunisia by Omer-Cooper (1930) in southern (Teboulbou, Gabès).

Distribution. This species has an Euro-Siberian distribution extending to India (Polhemus 1995; Carapezza 1997; Fent et al. 2011).

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

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.

Omer-Cooper, J. (1930) Notes on the fresh-water fauna of Southern Tunisia. The Entomologist, 63, 251 - 255.

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FIGURE 7. A. Distribution of Anisops debilis perplexus and Anisops sardeus sardeus. B. Distribution of Notonecta glauca glauca, Notonecta meridionalis and Notonecta viridis.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Notonectidae

SubFamily

Notonectinae

Genus

Notonecta