Merragata hebroides White, 1877

Kment, Petr, Jindra, Zdeněk & Berchi, Gavril Marius, 2016, Review of West-Palaearctic Hebridae with description of a new species and redescription of Hebrus fulvinervis (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), Zootaxa 4147 (3), pp. 201-239 : 232

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Merragata hebroides White, 1877 View in CoL

Merragata hebroides White, 1877: 114 View in CoL . Syntype (s): ♀, Hawaii Islands, Oahu ( BMNH).

Merragata foveata Drake, 1917: 103 View in CoL . Synonymized by Blatchley (1926: 610). Holotype: USA, Ohio, Summit Co., Ira ( USNM).

Merragata slossoni Van Duzee, 1921: 133 View in CoL . Synonymized by Drake (1952: 194) . Holotype: ♂, USA, Florida, Biscayne Bay ( CASC) .

Merragata lindbergi Poisson, 1954a: 2 View in CoL . Synonymized by Drake & Chapman (1958: 319, listed) and Drake & Cobben (1960: 36). Syntypes: 2 ♂ 4 ♀, Canary Islands, Tenerife, Puerto de San Juan ( MZHF) .

Material examined. CANARY ISLANDS: Gran Canaria: Maspalomas , 282-120, sand dunes, water, 3.viii.2003, 3 ♀, M. Mantič lgt. (2 ♀ NMPC, 1 ♀ MMHC).

Distribution. North Africa: Canary Islands ( Poisson 1954a, b; Aukema et al. 2013b). Nearctic and Neotropical Region: From southern Canada to Argentina (except Chile), West Indies and Netherland Antilles ( Drake 1917, Blatchley 1926, Drake & Chapman 1958, Drake & Cobben 1960, Polhemus & Polhemus 1988). Hawaiian Islands ( White 1877).

The distribution in Cape Verde Islands ( Drake & Chapman 1958) is an apparent error for Canary Islands, which were not listed by those authors.

Comment. The synonym Merragata lindbergi was described according to 2 male and 4 female syntypes deposited in MZHF. However, in the collection of NMPC there is deposited also one female ‘paratype’ of M. lindbergi (see Kment & Kolínová 2013). Most probably there are the same problems with redundant types as in H. pusillus canariensis (see Comment on p. 15) but we did not receive the detailed information from L. Huldén to be provided here.

References

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Drake, C. J. (1917) A survey of the North American species of Merragata. Ohio Journal of Science, 17, 101 - 105.

Drake, C. J. (1952) A new tropical hebrid (Hemiptera). Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 28, 194.

Drake, C. J. & Chapman, H. C. (1958) New Neotropical Hebridae, including a catalogue of the American species (Hemiptera). Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 48, 317 - 326.

Drake, C. J. & Cobben, R. H. (1960) The Heteroptera of the Netherlands Antilles - II. Hebridae. Studies on the Fauna of Curacao and Other Caribbean Islands, 51 (11), 35 - 43.

Kment, P. & Kolinova, Z. (2013) Catalogue of type specimens of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic. Enicocephalomorpha, Dipsocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha, and Leptopodomorpha. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 53, 821 - 890.

Poisson, R. (1954 a) Deux Hebrides (Hem. het.) nouveaux des Canaries. Commentationes Biologicae, 14 (4), 1 - 3.

Poisson, R. (1954 b) Sur la faune des Hemipteres-Heteropteres aquatiques des iles Canaries. Ses affinites biogeographiques. Annales du Musee du Congo Belge, Tervuren, in- 8 °, Zoologie, 1, 506 - 510.

Polhemus, J. T. & Polhemus, D. A. (1988) Family Hebridae Amyot and Serville, 1843. The velvet water bugs. In: Henry, J. T. & Froeschner, R. C. (Eds.), Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. E. J. Brill, Leiden, New York, Kobenhaven, Koln, pp. 152 - 155.

Van Duzee, E. P. (1921) Characters of some new species of North American hemipterous insects, with one new genus. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4, 11, 111 - 134.

White, F. B. (1877) Descriptions of new species of heteropterous Hemiptera collected in the Hawaiian Islands by the Rev. T. Blackburn. - No. 1. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 4, 20, 110 - 117. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222937708682204