Hydrometra lineata Eschscholtz, 1822

Pelingen, Arthien Lovell, Zettel, Herbert, Pangantihon, Clister V, Aldaba, Kyra Mari Dominique, Fatallo, Earl Kevin, de Leon, Jemillie Madonna & Freitag, Hendrik, 2020, Contributions to the knowledge of water bugs in Mindoro Island, Philippines, with a species checklist of Nepomorpha and Gerromorpha (Insecta, Hemiptera, Heteroptera), Biodiversity Data Journal 8, pp. 56883-56883 : 56883

Hydrometra lineata Eschscholtz, 1822

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1 female (ma); Taxon: scientificName: Hydrometralineata; Location: island: Mindoro; country: Philippines; municipality: Roxas; locationRemarks: HR1b; Event: eventDate: 01.07.2017 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1 female (ma); Taxon: scientificName: Hydrometralineata; Location: island: Mindoro; country: Philippines; municipality: Roxas; locationRemarks: HR3y; Event: eventDate: 21.06.2017 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 2 males (ma); Taxon: scientificName: Hydrometralineata; Location: island: Mindoro; country: Philippines; municipality: Roxas; locationRemarks: TIR1b; Event: eventDate: 30.06.2017

Distribution

Hydrometra lineata Eschscholtz, 1822 (see Eschscholtz 1822) is widely distributed in the Philippines (see Fig. 7 for new records), the Oriental Realm, Wallacea and New Guinea ( Polhemus and Lansbury 1997, Gapud et al. 2003).

Taxon discussion

For identification, refer to the key by Gapud et al. (2003). All specimens examined were macropterous.

Habitat

The species is often found in large stagnant water bodies and rarely seen in running waters; however, all our samples are from stream banks.

Figures

Figure 7. Distribution of the collecting sites of Gerromorpha material (part 1) treated in this study.