Plea minutissima minutissima (Leach)

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 : 169-170

Plea minutissima minutissima (Leach)

( Figs 8 B, 14)

Material examined. Station 22, 24 -vii-2013, 2♀; 03-ix-2013, 3♀; station 23, 21 -v-2013, 2 ♂1♀; 27-vi- 2013, 3♂ 1♀; 25-vii-2013, 4♂ 1♀; 20-viii-2013, 3♂ 3♀; 03-ix-2013, 1♂ 3♀; station 25, 27 -vi-2013, 1 ♂1♀; 24-vii- 2013, 2♂ 1♀; 20-viii-2013, 2♂ 3♀; 03-ix-2013, 1♂ 1♀; station 35, 27 -ii-2013, 1♀; 29-xi-2013, 1♂; 27-xii-2013, 1♀; station 36, 27 -iii-2013, 3 ♂1♀; 24-iv-2013, 1♂ 4♀; 21-viii-2013, 1♀; station 37, 24 -iv-2013, 1♀; station 38, 27 -i-2013, 1 ♂1♀; 25-ii-2013, 2♂; 25-iii-2013, 3♂ 2♀; 22-iv-2013, 4♀; 26-vi-2013, 2♂ 1♀; station 43, 25 -ii-2013, 1 ♂; 25-iii-2013, 1♀; station 44, 19 -viii-2013, 1♀; station 47, 25 -iii-2013, 1♀; station 49, 19 -vii-2013, 1♀.

Comments. The specimens were collected in sand or shore vegetation at edges of slowly flowing small streams up to 36 m asl. It was first recorded from Tunisia by Ferrari (1884).

Distribution. This species is distributed in most of Europe, northern Africa, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Turkey, Cyprus, Georgia, Iraq, Israel, Russia (West Siberia), Tadjikistan, Uzbekistan (Polhemus 1995; Carapezza 1997; Fent et al. 2011).

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FIGURE 8. A. Distribution of Notonecta maculata. B. Distribution of Plea minutissima minutissima.