Notonecta meridionalis Poisson

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 meridionalis Poisson

( Fig. 7 B)

Material examined. Station 12, 16 -vii-2013, 1 ♂; 26-xii-2013, 1♀.

Comments. This species was collected in Tunisia only in a stream at high altitude. It was first recorded from Tunisia by Carapezza (1997) in the north (Aïn Draham, Jendouba).

Distribution. Occurs in the southern parts of western and central Europe, northern Africa and Turkey (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.