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

Notonecta viridis (Delcourt)

( Fig. 7 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).

Figures

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